Plural Carbocyclic Rings Containing Patents (Class 570/129)
  • Publication number: 20130261352
    Abstract: A fluorographene and preparation method thereof are provided. For the said fluorographene, the fraction of F is 0.5<F %<53.5% in weight and the fraction of C is 46.5%<C %<99.5% in weight. The method comprises the following steps: providing the graphite; preparing the graphene oxide with the graphite; mixing the graphene oxide with the compound containing fluorine by weight ratio of 1:1˜100:1 in anaerobic environment, reacting at 200˜1 000° C. for 1˜10 hours then cooling down to obtain the said fluorographene. The above-mentioned method using graphite to prepare the graphene oxide, then making use of the reaction of graphene oxide with the compound containing fluorine under a certain temperature has simple process and can prepare fluorographene conveniently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Mingjie Zhou, Daxi Liu, Yaobing Wang
  • Publication number: 20130240784
    Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy (??), and having at least one of characteristics such as a high stability to heat, light and so forth, a high clearing point, a suitable refractive index anisotropy (?n) and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, and an intermediate thereof. A solution is a compound represented by formula (1): wherein, for example, R1 and R2 are alkyl having 1 to 12 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 12 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 12 carbons; ring A1, ring A2 and ring A3 are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are a single bond or —(CH2)2—; X is —CF2— or —CHF—; and l, m and n are 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Hirata, Hiroki Ookawa
  • Publication number: 20130221333
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescence device having a long lifetime and capable of emitting blue light with high luminous efficiency. The organic electroluminescence device has an organic thin film layer composed of one or multiple layers including at least a light emitting layer and interposed between a cathode and an anode. In the organic electroluminescence device, the light emitting layer contains at least one kind selected from compounds each having a specific fluoranthene structure and at least one kind selected from fused ring-containing compounds each having a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130208227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a switch element, which is thermoresponsive and which switches between a less transmissive state for radiant energy and a more transmissive state for radiant energy, and which comprises a liquid-crystalline medium. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the switch element for the regulation of radiant energy flow between interior spaces and the environment and for the regulation of the temperature of interior spaces. The invention furthermore relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterised in that it comprises a compound of the formula (I), in particular for use in the switch elements according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Junge
  • Patent number: 8470199
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having a high stability to heat, light or the like, a nematic phase in a wide temperature range, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy (especially, a relatively small optical anisotropy), a large elastic constant K33 and a suitable dielectric anisotropy (especially, a relatively large dielectric anisotropy), which is represented by formula (1-1). For example, R1 and R2 are alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons or alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons; the ring A1 and the ring A2 is 1,4-phenylene, 2-fluoro-1,4-phenylene, 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene or 3,5-difluoro-1,4-phenylene; and m and n are 0, 1, 2 or 3, and the sum of m and n is 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventor: Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8465674
    Abstract: A compound represented by the formula (1) is provided. In the formula (1), for example, R1 and R2 are alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons; the ring A and the ring B are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1 and Z2 are a single bond and Z3 is —CH2O— or —OCH2—; Y1 and Y2 are halogen, —CF3, —CHF2, —CH2F, —OCF3, —OCHF2 or —OCH2F; and m and n is 0, 1 or 2, p is 1 or 2, and the sum of m, n and p is 1, 2 or 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventor: Tokifumi Masukawa
  • Patent number: 8460766
    Abstract: A liquid crystal compound of Formula (1) is provided below: wherein R is hydrogen, linear or branching C1-15 alkyl, linear or branching C1-15 alkyl (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, or —O—CO—), linear or branching C2-15 alkenyl, or linear or branching C2-15 alkenyl (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, or —O—CO—), A and B are, independently, cyclohexane, cyclohexane (wherein any one of —CH2— is replaced by —O— or —NH—), benzene, or benzene (wherein any one of —CH2? is replaced by —N?), X is a single bond, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —CH2CH2—, —C?C—, —C?C—, —CF2O—, or —OCF2—, Q is oxygen or CH2, Y is CF3, CF2H, or CFH2, L1, L2, and L3 are, independently, hydrogen or fluorine, and m is 0, 1, or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Pei-Chen Huang, Kuo-Chang Wang, Kuo-Liang Yeh, An-Cheng Chen, Kung-Lung Cheng, Shyue-Ming Jang
  • Patent number: 8449953
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a chiral dopant having the following formula: wherein X1 and X2 are independently wherein F is fluorine, m is a positive integer from 1 to 8, and n is a positive integer from 1 to 4; Y1 and Y2 are independently —O—, —CH2CH2—, —CH?CH—, —C(O)O—, or —CH2O—; and R1, R2 are independently substituted or non-substituted C1-C10 linear alkyl, wherein substituents of the substituted C1-C10 linear alkyl are independently —F, —Cl, —OCF3, —NCS, or —CN, wherein a number of backbone carbon atoms in each of —Y1R1 and —Y2R2 is larger than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chien-Hsien Cheng, Kuo-Chang Wang, Chun-Ming Wu, Kung-Lung Cheng, Shih-Hsien Liu, Chih-Lung Chin
  • Publication number: 20130131337
    Abstract: An optically active bisbenzyl compound or a racemic bisbenzyl compound represented by formula (2) that has axial chirality. An optically active azepine derivative or a racemic azepine derivative represented by formula (3). Methods of producing an optically active quaternary ammonium salt compound represented by formula (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: NIPPON SODA CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130126857
    Abstract: A novel organic compound suitably used for a green-light-emitting device and an organic light-emitting device are provided. An organic light-emitting device and an image display apparatus containing a naphtho[2?,3?:5,6]indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene derivative represented by general formula (1) as a dopant: wherein in general formula (1), R1 to R16 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl groups, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy groups, substituted or unsubstituted amino groups, substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups, and substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic groups, and at least one of R3, R4, R9, and R10 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups and substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2011
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomonari Horikiri, Jun Kamatani, Masanori Muratsubaki
  • Patent number: 8444877
    Abstract: Provided are liquid crystal compounds and mixtures incorporating the same. The liquid crystal compounds of the invention generally comprise a terminal cyclopentene group, along with at least two other ring groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: VVI Bright China Ltd.
    Inventors: Xinhua Chen, R. Amaranatha Reddy
  • Publication number: 20130096348
    Abstract: The present invention proposes a chiral diene ligand, a fabrication method thereof and applications thereof. The chiral diene ligand is a bicyclo[2.2.1] diene ligand having structural specificity and high stability, which favors the bicyclo[2.2.1] diene ligand to take part in asymmetric transformations, particularly an asymmetric addition reaction involving a metal catalyst in a basic environment. Most of the products of the reactions implemented by the chiral diene ligands of the present invention have superior optical activity. The method of the present invention comprises a first oxidation step, a saponification step, a second oxidation step, a deprotonation step, and a cross-coupling step. The chiral diene ligand of the present invention is very suitable to be used in the fabrication or synthesis of various chemicals and medical products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Hsyueh-Liang WU, Chun-Chih Chen, Chia-Chen Liu, Wei-Ting Wei, Jo-Hsuan Fang
  • Publication number: 20130076604
    Abstract: Provided are a novel organic compound appropriate for emission of green light and an organic light-emitting device including the organic compound. Provided is a substituted or unsubstituted indeno[1,2,3-cd]naphtho[2,3-k]fluoranthene appropriate for emission of green light. The substituents of the indeno[1,2,3-cd]naphtho[2,3-k]fluoranthene are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Kengo Kishino, Akihito Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20130062598
    Abstract: Disclosed are new compounds having semiconducting properties. Such compounds can be processed in solution-phase at a temperature of less than about 50° C. into thin film semiconductors that exhibit high carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Hakan Usta, Damien Boudinet, Jordan Quinn, Antonio Facchetti
  • Publication number: 20130033416
    Abstract: An organic compound contains indacenodiperylene as the basic skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Tetsuya Kosuge, Takayuki Horiuchi, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita, Akihito Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20130020532
    Abstract: A novel liquid crystalline carbonate and the mixture containing the same: wherein R3 is an alkyl (H2n+1Cn) or an alkenyl (H2n?1Cn) group, each of 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the ring A is laterally unsubstituted benzene or pyridine or pyrimidine or trans-substituted cyclohexane ring, symbol r is 0 to 2; the lateral substituents: X2, X3, X4 and X5 in the benzene rings represent independently hydrogen or fluorine or chlorine atoms, X1 is hydrogen or fluorine atom and simultaneously at least one of the substituents: X2, X3 and X4 is fluorine or chlorine atoms, Y is an alkyl or an alkyloxy or an alkenyl or an aikenyloxy group, each of 1 to 12 carbon atoms or hydrogen or fluorine or chlorine atom or NCS group are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Roman Slawomir Dabrowski, Przemyslaw Kula, Artur Choluj, Jerzy Dziaduszek, Katarzyna Garbat
  • Publication number: 20130002526
    Abstract: A novel organic compound suitable for emitting green light and an organic light-emitting device including the organic compound are provided. The organic compound is represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), R1 to R18 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Kengo Kishino, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh
  • Patent number: 8298632
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having a suitable value of refractive index anisotropy, a suitable value of dielectric anisotropy, steep characteristics electro-optic characteristics, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, and a liquid crystal compounds especially having a wide temperature range of a nematic phase. A compound represented by formula (1). For example, R1 and R2 are each independently alkyl having 1 to 9 carbons or alkenyl having 2 to 9 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 8 carbons or alkenyloxy having 2 to 8 carbons; Q1 and Q4 are each independently fluorine or chlorine; Q2 and Q3 are each independently hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine, and one of Q2 and Q3 is hydrogen; Z is —CH2 O— or —COO—; and h is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, JNC Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Teru Shimada, Junichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120261614
    Abstract: Providing a liquid crystal composition satisfying at least one of characteristics such as high maximum temperature of nematic phase, low minimum temperature of the nematic phase, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large negative dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet light and heat, or having a suitable balance regarding at least two of the characteristics; and an AM device having short response time, large voltage holding ratio, large contrast ratio, long service life and so forth. The liquid crystal composition has a negative dielectric anisotropy and contains a specific two-ring compound having a low minimum temperature as a first component, a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a second component, a specific compound having a low viscosity as a third component, and a specific compound having a large negative dielectric anisotropy as a fourth component. The liquid crystal display device contains the composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: YASUYUKI GOTO, SUBARU KAWASAKI, NORIKATSU HATTORI
  • Publication number: 20120264984
    Abstract: A liquid crystal compound with high optical anisotropy is provided. The liquid crystal compound is represented by formula (I), wherein each of R1 and R2 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms; the alkyl group and the alkenyl group are unsubstituted or substituted by —O—, —CO—, or —COO— groups; each of X1, X2, X3, and X4 represents hydrogen or fluorine, and at least one of X1, X2, X3, and X4 is fluorine; m is 1, 2, or 3; n is 0, 1, or 2, and 2?m+n?3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: DAXIN MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Wang, Chin-Yen Chang, Yu-Ying Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20120264887
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of 1,5-enediyne compounds of formula (I) as curing agents in polymeric systems. In particular the invention relates to a curable composition comprising a curing agent of formula (I) and a polymer suitable to be cross-linked and to the cured article obtained therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: SOLVAY SPECIALTY POLYMERS ITALY S.P.A.
    Inventors: Enzo Giannetti, Aldo Sanguineti, Ivan Wlassics, Giuseppe Marchionni
  • Patent number: 8257620
    Abstract: Compounds are disclosed for the production of chemiluminescent light, particularly for the production of blue/violet light within the range of about 390 nm to less than 438 nm, and most particularly to the use of compounds composed of symmetrically and asymmetrically substituted anthracenes which are effective for increasing the production of such blue/violet light when used as fluorescers in conjunction with chemiluminescent systems. These systems utilize derivatives of 9,10-diphenylanthracene containing one or more fluorines As shown in General Formulae 1-3. The variables shown in Formulae 1-3 are defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Cyalume Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Earl Cranor, Linda Jacob
  • Publication number: 20120208989
    Abstract: Fluorinated aromatic materials, their synthesis and their use in optoelectronics. In some cases, the fluorinated aromatic materials are perfluoroalkylated aromatic materials that may include perfluoropolyether substituents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA
    Inventor: Haoran Sun
  • Publication number: 20120196908
    Abstract: This invention describes new antifungal compounds that are aralkyl benzyl ethers of the formula (I): wherein: Ar represents aryl, imidazolil, 1,2,4-triazolyl, benzimidazolil; R1, R2, R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen, halogen, C1-6 alkyl; R3 represents halogen, C1-6alkyl or O—R? where R? represents hydrogen or lower alkyl; R6 represents aryl, substituted aryl, trifluoromethyl, trichloromethyl or O—R? where R? represents hydrogen or lower alkyl; being the substituents of the aryl a halogen or a radical tetrazolyl; n and m represent independently an integer between 0 and 5; With the proviso that when Ar is imidazolil, R3 is chlorine, R6 is p-phenyl and R1, R2, R4 and R5 are hydrogen, n must be different from 2. When n and m are not 0 and 1, R3 or R6 can be represented by substituents not necessarily equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: BIOLAB SANUS FARMACEUTICA LTDA.
    Inventors: Artur Franz Keppler, Sérgio Luiz Sacurai, Marcio Henrique Zaim, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Touzarim
  • Publication number: 20120168677
    Abstract: A liquid crystal compound represented by formula (1-1). For example, R1 and R2 are independently hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons, alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 9 carbons or alkenyloxy having 2 to 9 carbons; the ring A1 is trans-1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-cyclohexenylene, 1,3-dioxane-2,5-diyl, pyrimidine-2,5-diyl or pyridine-2,5-diyl; L1 and L2 are independently hydrogen or fluorine, and at least one of them is fluorine; and Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond, —(CH2)2—, —CH?CH—, —C?C—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —COO— or —OCO—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Junichi Yamashita
  • Publication number: 20120149943
    Abstract: In a process for the preparation of ring compounds via a combinatorial synthesis, the reaction procedure is based on a Suzuki coupling; subsequent halo-demetallation and finally a further Suzuki coupling. The Suzuki couplings are each carried out with a boronic acid or a boronic acid ester. The reaction procedure uses provides novel ring compounds and uses novel synthesis units used for this purpose. The novel ring compounds are suitable for use as constituents in liquid-crystalline mixtures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: MERCK GMBH
    Inventors: Detlef PAULUTH, Peer Kirsch, Peter Baeuerle, Oliver Deeg
  • Patent number: 8197709
    Abstract: The present invention relates to chemical compounds containing five or more benzene rings arranged in a linear manner and two bridging units between these rings, where at least one of these units represents a —CF2O— bridge. The invention additionally relates to liquid-crystalline media and to high-frequency components comprising these media, in particular antennae, especially for the gigahertz range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit berschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Lars Lietzau, Werner Binder, Atsutaka Manabe, Helmut Haensel
  • Patent number: 8187494
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having stability to heat, light and so forth, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy, and a suitable elastic constant K33, and further having a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds, and a liquid crystal composition having stability to heat, light and so forth, a low viscosity, a large optical anisotropy, a suitable and negative dielectric anisotropy, and a suitable elastic constant K33, a low threshold voltage, a high maximum temperature (phase-transition temperature on a nematic phase-isotropic phase) of a nematic phase, and a low minimum temperature of the nematic phase. The liquid crystal compound which has a specific structure having fluorine at a lateral position and also having phenylene in which hydrogen on the benzene ring is replaced by fluorine, and a liquid crystal composition containing the compound are prepared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignees: JNC Corporation, Chisso Petrochemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masahide Kobayashi, Teru Shimada
  • Patent number: 8163200
    Abstract: The invention relates to liquid-crystalline compounds of the formula I in which R1, R2, A1, A2, A3, A4, Z1, Z2, Z3, V, a, b and c have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, and to liquid-crystalline media comprising at least one compound of the formula I, and to electro-optical displays containing a liquid-crystalline medium of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Lars Lietzau, Markus Czanta, Atsutaka Manabe, Kai Jaehrling
  • Publication number: 20120091885
    Abstract: Disclosed are novel organic electroluminescent compounds and organic electroluminescent devices comprising the same. With good luminous efficiency and excellent life property, the disclosed organic electroluminescent compounds can be used to manufacture OLED devices having very good operation life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Let.
    Inventors: Young Gil Kim, Young Jun Chop, Hyuck Joo Kwon, Bong Ok Kim, Sung Min Kim, Seung Soo Yoon
  • Patent number: 8158835
    Abstract: Provided is a novel fluorene compound, which is represented by the following general formula (1):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu, Ryota Ooishi
  • Publication number: 20120074355
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound having a high stability to heat, light or the like, a nematic phase in a wide temperature range, a small viscosity, a suitable optical anisotropy (especially, a relatively small optical anisotropy), a large elastic constant K33 and a suitable dielectric anisotropy (especially, a relatively large dielectric anisotropy), which is represented by formula (1-1). For example, R1 and R2 are alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons or alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons; the ring A1 and the ring A2 is 1,4-phenylene, 2-fluoro-1,4-phenylene, 3-fluoro-1,4-phenylene or 3,5-difluoro-1,4-phenylene; and m and n are 0, 1, 2 or 3, and the sum of m and n is 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicants: JNC PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahide Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8138668
    Abstract: There is provided a benzo[a]fluoranthene compound represented by the following general formula (I): wherein at least one of R14, R15, R16, R20, and R21 represents Rn represented by the following general formula (i), and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rn each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rn may be identical to or different from one another; wherein R23, R24, R25, R26, and R27 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, and R23, R24, R25, R26, and R27 may be identical to or different from one another, provided that, in at least one pair of adjacent substituents out of R23, R24, R25, and R26, the substituents are bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu, Takayuki Horiuchi, Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20120025183
    Abstract: Provided is an acenaphtho[1,2-k]benzo[e]acephenanthrene derivative represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 to R16 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; and at least one of R1 to R8 and R10 to R15 is selected from a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Takayuki Horiuchi, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20120024382
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel polyaromatic and polyheteroaromatic compounds and derivatives thereof. The compounds display high solubility in organic solvents. A further aspect of the invention relates to the use of the novel compounds in the fabrication of organic film based heterojunction devices. In one form the devices display high conversion efficiencies in solar cell applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicants: THE UNIVERSITY OF ULM, THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
    Inventors: Andrew Holmes, David Jones, Wing Ho Wallace Wong, Chang Qi Ma, Peter Baeuerle
  • Publication number: 20110309300
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal compound that has an excellent compatibility with other liquid crystal compounds and also has at least one of characteristics such as a high stability to heat, light or the like, a suitable refractive index anisotropy (?n), a low threshold voltage and a suitable dielectric anisotropy (??). A compound represented by formula (1). For example, R1 is alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, R2 is halogen or alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons; the ring A1, the ring A2 and the ring A3 are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-phenylene; Z1, Z2 and Z3 are a single bond or alkylene having 1 to 4 carbons; G is —CH2— or —O—; and m is 1, and n and p is 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicants: CHISSO PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION, JNC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tokifumi MASUKAWA, Yasuyuki GOTO, Tomohiro YANO
  • Publication number: 20110313189
    Abstract: 1,4 fullerene deriatives useful for solar cells are provided, where their structures allow for straightforward functionalizations to tune their properties in terms of solubility and LUMO energy levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Allesandro Varotto, Fred Wudl, Jang Jo
  • Publication number: 20110269629
    Abstract: Partially or fully saturated doped graphene materials are found to be superconducting. The saturation is with hydrogen or halogen. Doping is performed by substitution of carbon atoms or by applying an electric field. Diamond nano-rods are also found to be superconducting. These materials can be used in electronic devices having a gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: November 3, 2011
    Applicant: ISIS INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Feliciano Giustino, Andrea C. Ferrari, Gianluca Savini
  • Patent number: 8043670
    Abstract: The invention relates to new polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline compounds comprising a terminal cyclohexylphenyl group wherein the phenyl group has polar substituents, to polymerizable mesogenic or liquid crystalline mixtures and anisotropic polymers prepared thereof, and to the use of the new compounds and the mixtures and polymers prepared thereof in optical and electrooptical devices, adhesives, synthetic resins with anisotropic mechanical properties, cosmetics, diagnostics, liquid crystal pigments, decorative and security applications, nonlinear optics, optical information storage, electronic devices like organic field effect transistors (FET or OFET) or electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Klein, Stephan Derow
  • Publication number: 20110255048
    Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid-crystal (LC) media for use in LC displays of the PS (polymer stabilised) or PSA (polymer sustained alignment) type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: Merck Patent Gesellschaft MIT Beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventors: Achim Goetz, Melanie Klasen-Memmer, Stepham Derow
  • Patent number: 8039128
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having a high efficiency and durability is provided. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode and a layer formed of an organic compound interposed between the anode and the cathode, and contains at least one kind of the fluorene compound represented by the following general formula (I) or (II): wherein R1 to R4 each represent an alkyl group, a fluorinated alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; and Ar1 to Ar8 represent a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group or a substituted or unsubstituted polycondensed aromatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Taiki Watanabe, Kazunori Ueno, Koichi Suzuki, Yohei Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 8039681
    Abstract: This invention relates to carbon materials, such as a fullerene molecule or a curved carbon nanostructure, that are functionalized by addition chemistry performed on surface C—C double bond.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Paul J. Krusic, Clarence G. Law, Helen S. M. Lu, Zhen-Yu Yang, Jocelyn Hicks Garner
  • Publication number: 20110251394
    Abstract: An organic compound is represented by general formula (1): where R1 to R18 are each independently selected from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh
  • Publication number: 20110240919
    Abstract: The subject is to provide a liquid crystal that has a high stability to heat, light and so forth, a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a small viscosity, a large optical anisotropy and a suitable elastic constant K33, and further has a large negative dielectric anisotropy and an excellent compatibility with any other liquid crystal compound. The invention provides the compound (1): wherein, for example, R1 and R2 are hydrogen, alkyl having 1 to 10 carbons, alkenyl having 2 to 10 carbons, alkoxy having 1 to 9 carbons, alkoxyalkyl having 2 to 9 carbons or alkenyloxy having 2 to 9 carbons; when one of the ring A1, the ring A2 and the ring A3 is 1,4-phenylene or 2,3-difluoro-1,4-phenylene, the other two are 1,4-cyclohexylene or 1,4-cyclohexenylene; and Z1 is a single bond, —(CH2)2—, —CH2O—, —OCH2—, —COO— or —OCO—.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicants: CHISSO CORPORATION, CHISSO PETROCHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masahide KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20110227057
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device having high light emitting efficiency and good emission color purity. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer which is sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which one of the anode and the cathode is transparent or semi-transparent and the organic compound layer contains at least one kind of perylene compound represented by the following general formula (1): where R1 to R8 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group; and Ar1 to Ar4 each represent a substituent represented by the following general formula (2) or (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kosuge, Satoshi Igawa
  • Patent number: 8021767
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-performance organic light-emitting device, and a novel organic compound for use in the device. The novel compound of the present invention is a 4-arylfluorene compound having a specific structure. The organic light-emitting device of the present invention is an organic light-emitting device including: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the organic compound layer contains the 4-arylfluorene compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Jun Kamatani, Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8021571
    Abstract: The invention relates to chiral reactive mesogen (RM) mixtures, polymer films obtained thereof, and the use of the mixtures and polymer films in optical, electrooptical or electronic components or devices, in decorative, security or cosmetic applications, especially for use in broadband reflective polarizers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Merck Patent Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Alison Linda May, Owain Llyr Parri
  • Publication number: 20110220884
    Abstract: A compound for an organic thin film transistor having a structure represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 and R2, and R3 and R4 are respectively combined with each other to form an aromatic hydrocarbon ring having 6 to 60 carbon atoms or an aromatic heterocyclic ring having 3 to 60 carbon atoms; the ring being fused to the ring to which the groups are bonded, whereby the structure of the formula (1) has 5 or more aromatic rings that are fused; and the fused rings formed by R1 and R2, and R3 and R4 each may have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: Masatoshi Saito, Yuki Nakano, Hiroaki Nakamura, Hirofumi Kondo
  • Publication number: 20110220883
    Abstract: A compound for an organic thin film transistor having a structure of the following formula (1): wherein R1 to R6 are independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a haloalkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a haloalkoxy group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkylthio group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a haloalkylthio group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an alkylamino group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a dialkylamino group having 2 to 60 carbon atoms (the alkyl groups may be combined with each other to form a ring structure containing the nitrogen atom), an alkylsulfonyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, a haloalkylsulfonyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 60 carbon atoms, an aromatic heterocyclic group having 3 to 60 carbon atoms, an alkylsilyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkylsilylacetylene group having 5 to 60 carbon atoms or a cyano group, which each may have
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Masatoshi Saito, Hiroaki Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110204354
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting device having an optical output with high luminance and high color purity with extremely high efficiency. The organic light-emitting device includes an organic layer between the anode and the cathode, in which one of the anode and the cathode is a transparent electrode or a semi-transparent electrode and at least one layer of the organic layer contains at least one kind of indenopyrene compound having a specific structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takeshi Sekiguchi, Hiroshi Tanabe, Hiroki Ohrui, Masanori Seki