Patents Assigned to Global OLED Technologies LLC
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Patent number: 7842406Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having therebetween a layer containing an acridone compound including a diarylamine or carbazole substituent where the nitrogen of the acridone and the nitrogen of the diarylamine or carbazole are connected by an aromatic hydrocarbon linking group. OLED devices of the invention exhibit improved efficiency and drive voltage.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Shouquan Huo, Joseph C. Deaton
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Patent number: 7842341Abstract: A method for evaporating a plurality of purified organic materials in a thermal physical vapor deposition system, comprising the steps of: mixing predetermined amounts of first and second organic materials to form a mixture of materials at a predetermined ratio; processing at least one of the organic materials at less than the sublimation temperature of the at least one of the organic materials before or after mixing to remove a first contaminant, wherein if processing is after mixing, the processing temperature is lower than the sublimation temperature of each of the organic materials; providing a thermal physical vapor deposition source; transferring the purified mixture of organic materials into the thermal physical vapor deposition source while maintaining the purified mixture of organic materials in a controlled, contaminant-free environment; and using the source to evaporate the purified mixture of organic materials.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2005Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael L. Boroson, Ronald S. Cok, Michael Long, Dennis R. Freeman, Jeremy M. Grace
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Publication number: 20100295758Abstract: To efficiently execute threshold value compensation for a driving transistor for an electroluminescent element. A first storage capacitor has a first terminal connected to a data line. A first terminal of a switching transistor and a first terminal of a reset transistor are connected to a second terminal of the first storage capacitor. The first storage capacitor is formed overlapping a data line.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2008Publication date: November 25, 2010Applicant: GLOBAL OLED TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
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Patent number: 7837780Abstract: A green color filter having a green filter layer comprising a bridged aluminum phthalocyanine pigment and a second pigment having its maximum absorption at a wavelength from 400 to 500 nm.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Margaret J. Helber, Paula J. Alessi, Mitchell S. Burberry, Donald R. Diehl, Mary C. Brick, Steven Evans, Ronald S. Cok
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Patent number: 7839363Abstract: To reduce variation in characteristics of a voltage-current conversion circuit for supplying a data signal to a data line for driving a transistor arranged in a pixel of an organic EL display device. Two sets A, B of voltage-current conversion circuits are provided in a data driver for driving a transistor arranged in a pixel, and RGB signals are supplied to these circuits. The voltage-current conversion circuits of sets A and B are controlled so as to be switched for every frame or every frame and line.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
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Patent number: 7834541Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising: a light-emitting area of an OLED comprising a first electrode, a second transparent electrode, and one or more layers of organic light-emitting material formed between the electrodes; and a light-scattering layer, formed on a side of the transparent electrode opposite the one or more layers of organic light-emitting material, comprising transparent, light-scattering particles, wherein the ratio of the volume of light-scattering particles to the volume of the layer is greater than 0.55 over a majority of the light-emitting area.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Ronald S. Cok
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Patent number: 7834825Abstract: An organic EL display apparatus including in each display pixel an organic EL element. A drive transistor supplies a drive current that depends on brightness data and having the display pixels arranged in a matrix form. The display includes a correction gain storage unit for storing display pixel positions and a correction gain for correcting the slope of the brightness-data-based drive current of the drive transistors in the display pixels; and a correction unit for correcting pixel-by-pixel brightness data depending on the pixel position using the correction gain stored in the correction gain storage unit into brightness data for the pixel to generate corrected brightness data, each of the display pixels is displayed by driving its drive transistor in response to the data generated by the correction gain storage unit and the correction unit and supplying the corresponding organic EL element with the drive current.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Seiichi Mizukoshi, Nobuyuki Mori, Kouichi Onomura, Makoto Kohno
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Patent number: 7833074Abstract: A method of making a top-emitting LED device, including providing, over a substrate, a laterally spaced and optically opaque lower electrode and an upper electrode buss that is electrically insulated from the lower electrode; depositing material forming an EL medium structure over the lower electrode and the upper electrode buss; depositing, over the EL medium structure, a first light-transmissive upper electrode that protects the EL medium structure from particulate contamination; and selectively removing most of the EL medium structure over a selective portion of the upper electrode buss.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Mitchell S. Burberry, Donald R. Preuss
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Patent number: 7830002Abstract: An active-matrix device includes a device substrate including a plurality of pixels formed thereon, each pixel having a separate control electrode, a plurality of chiplets having at least first and second corresponding chiplets disposed at different locations over the device substrate, a plurality of wires formed over the device substrate, each wire being connected to a connection pad and to a different pixel control electrode, and wherein the shape of at least one of the wires connecting a connection pad for the first chiplet is different from the shape of at least one of the wires connecting a corresponding connection pad for the second chiplet.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Ronald S. Cok, Dustin L. Winters, John W. Hamer, Todd M. Spath
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Publication number: 20100277455Abstract: A display device in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix form, corresponding to intersections of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein each pixel includes a light emitting element having a first electrode connected to a first power supply and which emits light according to a current that flows; a driving transistor having a source electrode connected to a second power supply and which supplies a drain current to a second electrode of the light emitting element; a data storage capacitor having a first electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a first switch which is switched ON during a pixel selection period so that data of a data line is written to the data storage capacitor, and wherein a potential of a second electrode of the data storage capacitor is changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2008Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: Global Oled Technology LLCInventors: Koichi Miwa, Yuichi Maekawa
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Patent number: 7825878Abstract: A display device includes an array having a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in a matrix, each pixel circuit includes a optoelectronic element and a plurality of thin-film transistors for controlling the optoelectronic element; data lines arranged to correspond to columns of pixel circuits for providing data signals to the pixel circuits; a data driver for driving the data lines; select lines for providing select signals for controlling the capture of data signals from the data lines to pixel circuits; and a select driver for driving the select lines including a shift register for sequentially shifting a line select signal, enable circuits for enabling outputs of the shift register, and n (where n is an integer of two or more) enable control lines for controlling the enable circuits, and the enable circuits are connected to the same one of the enable control lines every n lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
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Patent number: 7825570Abstract: A light-emitting diode (LED) device includes a reflective electrode and a transparent electrode having one or more light-emitting layers formed there-between. A contrast-enhancement element is located on a side of the transparent electrode opposite the light-emitting layer. The contrast-enhancement element has a first reflected-light absorbing layer and a second layer including transparent areas and reflective areas. The second layer is between the first reflected-light absorbing layer and the reflective electrode. A patterned light-scattering layer is located between the reflective areas of the second layer and the reflective electrode.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Ronald S. Cok
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Patent number: 7821201Abstract: A tandem OLED device including an anode; a cathode; at least two electroluminescent units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the electroluminescent units includes at least one hole-transporting layer and one organic light-emitting layer; and an intermediate connector of at least two layers disposed between adjacent electroluminescent units, wherein the intermediate connector includes an organic alkali metal complex layer and an organic electron-accepting layer, the organic electron-accepting layer being disposed closer to the cathode than the organic alkali metal complex layer, and there is present metallic aluminum in the organic alkali metal complex layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Tukaram K. Hatwar, Jeffrey P. Spindler, William J. Begley
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Patent number: 7816859Abstract: A tandem white light-emitting OLED device is disclosed comprising a spaced anode and cathode, a light reflector associated with either the anode or the cathode, and at least two white light emitting units. The first white light-emitting unit has a set of at least two emission peaks in the blue and yellow spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the first white light-emitting unit. The second white light-emitting unit is disposed closer to the reflector than the first white light-emitting unit and includes a set of at least three emission peaks in the blue, green, and red spectral regions that are more intense than any other emission peaks that may be present in the emission spectrum of the second white light-emitting unit. An intermediate connector is disposed between the first and second white light-emitting units.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Jeffrey P. Spindler, Tukaram K. Hatwar
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Patent number: 7817118Abstract: A display device in which measurement emissive elements that emit light in accordance with a drive current are arranged in a matrix within a display region, the display device includes a measurement emissive element which is formed in a position different from the display region and formed by the same process as the organic EL elements formed in the display region; drive voltage supply circuit for supplying drive voltage to the measurement emissive element; and drive state detection circuit for detecting the drive state of the measurement emissive element in the case where the drive voltage is supplied by the drive voltage supply circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2007Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Kazuyoshi Kawabe
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Patent number: 7816856Abstract: A flexible emissive display device having an adhesion layer thinner than the device substrate; a plurality of chiplets adhered to the adhesion layer wherein at least a portion of the adhesion layer extends above a portion of the chiplets; an OLED formed over the adhesion layer and wherein the OLED is thinner than the adhesion layer; a cover thicker than the adhesion layer located over the OLED and adhered to the device substrate; and wherein the chiplets and OLED are at or near the neutral stress plane of the device and the bending radius of the device is less than 2 cm.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Ronald S. Cok, John W. Hamer
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Patent number: 7812531Abstract: An OLED display, comprising: a substrate; an OLED having two spaced-apart electrodes and organic layers disposed there between, and the OLED disposed over the substrate; an encapsulation container fixed by perimeter seal to the substrate and disposed over the OLED to provide an enclosure; and the substrate or the encapsulation container, or both, including compliant regions that flex, compress, or expand under stress and reduce stress transfer between the substrate and the encapsulation container through the perimeter seal.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Michael L. Boroson, Michele L. Ricks, Thomas W. Palone
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Patent number: 7808455Abstract: Apparatus for compensating for a threshold voltage of a driver element having gate and drain electrodes which controls current flowing in a light emitting element effective in an on and off state. A capacitor is disposed between the gate electrode and a drain electrode when the light emitting element is in the on state emits light and when the light emitting element is in the off state, applying a voltage to the gate and the source of the driver element and a threshold voltage between the gate and drain electrodes is detected and stored in the capacitor, by writing a signal voltage closer to a potential which causes the driver element to turn off than the potential supplied to the gate electrode of the driver element when detecting a threshold value, the signal voltage being superimposed on the threshold voltage without losing the threshold voltage of the driver element.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2006Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Shinya Ono
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Patent number: 7804245Abstract: An electroluminescent device having an opposing EL-segment pair, including a first EL-segment that produces light in response to a first through-device current having a first transparent electrode connection and a first reflective electrode connection; a second EL-segment that produces light in response to a second through-device current, and having a second transparent electrode connection and a second reflective electrode connection and being disposed adjacent to and spaced from the first EL-segment such that the first transparent electrode connection is on the opposite edge as the second transparent electrode connection and the direction of the first transparent electrode current is parallel but opposite to the direction of the second transparent electrode current; and the first and second EL-segments are connected to a common power source such that the two EL-segments can be simultaneously forward biased.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2008Date of Patent: September 28, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventor: Donald R. Preuss
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Patent number: 7799439Abstract: An organic device including at least two electrodes; at least one organic active layer, wherein the organic active layer is disposed in between two electrodes; and an electrode modification layer, wherein the electrode modification layer is disposed in between two electrodes and in contact with one of the electrodes; and the electrode modification layer includes a fluorocarbon compound selected from the materials having a chemical structure of (CxFy)n, wherein the “x”, “y”, and “n” are integers, and wherein 1<x?70, 1<y?50, and n?1.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2006Date of Patent: September 21, 2010Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLCInventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Myron W. Culver, Ching W. Tang