Patents Assigned to Japan Display Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240404438
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a substrate includes a display area including a plurality of pixels, a surrounding area that surrounds the display area, and an inspection pad portion provided in the surrounding area, and the inspection pad portion includes a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads aligned in a first direction, a plurality of third pads aligned in the first direction, and arranged at positions displaced from the plurality of first pads in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of first conductive lines connecting the plurality of first pads with the plurality of third pads, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Teruaki UCHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240407228
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a manufacturing method of a display device includes preparing a processing substrate by forming a lower electrode, forming an inorganic insulating layer, and forming a partition including a lower portion and an upper portion, forming an organic layer including a light emitting layer, forming an upper electrode, forming a cap layer, forming a first sealing layer, and forming a resin layer. The process of forming the organic layer, the upper electrode and the cap layer is an evaporation process using the partition as a mask in a vacuum environment. The process of forming the resin layer includes a process of applying a resinous material in an air atmosphere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Noriyuki HIRATA, Hirofumi MIZUKOSHI, Hiraaki KOKAME
  • Publication number: 20240407200
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an organic insulating layer, a lower electrode provided on the organic insulating layer, a planarization layer which is provided on the organic insulating layer and is in contact with a side surface of the lower electrode, an inorganic insulating layer which covers the planarization layer and covers a peripheral portion of the lower electrode, a partition having a lower portion and an upper portion, an organic layer surrounded by the partition, provided on the lower electrode and including a light emitting layer, and an upper electrode which is surrounded by the partition, is provided on the organic layer and is in contact with the lower portion of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Arichika ISHIDA
  • Publication number: 20240402552
    Abstract: A display device including a substrate having a first TFT of an oxide semiconductor and a second TFT of a polysilicon semiconductor comprising: the oxide semiconductor is covered by a first insulating film, a first drain electrode is connected to the oxide semiconductor via a first through hole formed in the first insulating film, a first source electrode is connected to the oxide semiconductor via second through hole formed in the first insulating film in the first TFT, a second insulating film is formed covering the first drain electrode and the first source electrode, a drain wiring connects to the first drain electrode via a third through hole formed in the second insulating film, a source wiring is connected to the first source electrode via a fourth through hole formed in the second insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihide JINNAI, Hajime WATAKABE, Akihiro HANADA, Ryo ONODERA, lsao SUZUMURA
  • Publication number: 20240402410
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an illumination device includes light sources, a distributing light guide element and a light guide. The distributing light guide element has a first side surface, a second side surface and light waveguides extending from the first side surface towards the second side surface. The light guide has a third side surface and a first main surface. Each of the light waveguides have a first end portion into which light emitted from a corresponding light source enters, and a second end portion from which the light propagating in the light waveguide is emitted. The light emitted from the second end portion enters the light guide via the second side surface and the third side surface and is emitted from the first main surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi KOMURA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA, Koichi OKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240405441
    Abstract: Disclosed is an intelligent reflecting surface including a plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices, an adjusting substrate over the plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices, and an anti-reflective film located over the adjusting substrate and configured to absorb radio waves. Each of the plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices includes a pair of substrates and a plurality of radio-wave reflecting elements between the pair of substrates. The anti-reflective film has a lattice shape as a whole. An edge is covered by the anti-reflective film and a portion surrounded by the edge is exposed from the anti-reflective film in each of the plurality of radio-wave reflecting devices. A frequency of the radio waves is equal to or greater than 400 MHz and equal to or less than 50 GHz, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shigesumi ARAKI, Shinichiro OKA, Mitsutaka OKITA, Daiichi SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20240402538
    Abstract: A display device includes: point light sources emitting light of different colors; light guides each of which includes an end face facing a corresponding one of the point light sources, a first surface connected to the end face, and a second surface diagonally facing the end face and the first surface, the light being incident on the end face and undergoing internal reflection, between the first and second surfaces, and linear pattern emission from the first surface; and a display panel including a side surface that faces the first surface and on which the light is incident, front and back surfaces, and a converter that changes a traveling direction of the light, for each pixel of the image, propagating away from the side surface internally between the front and back surfaces, to a direction toward the display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240402553
    Abstract: A display device includes a first conductive layer arranged on a first substrate and extending in a first direction, a first insulating film arranged on the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer arranged on the first insulating film and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a second insulating film arranged on the second conductive layer and extending in the first direction and the second direction, a transparent conductive layer arranged on the second insulating film and extending in the first direction and the second direction, a third insulating film arranged on the first conductive layer, and a second substrate opposing the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro HANADA, Takuo KAITOH, Ryo ONODERA, Motochika YUKAWA
  • Publication number: 20240402527
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first transparent substrate, a display panel, a first fixing member, and a first light source unit. The first transparent substrate has a first light incident surface which is a side surface, and is formed to be curved. The display panel has flexibility. The first fixing member fixes the display panel to the first transparent substrate. The first light source unit is opposed to the first light incident surface to emit light to the first light incident surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Naoyuki ASANO, Kazuki ICHIHARA
  • Publication number: 20240402554
    Abstract: A display device includes a first conductive layer, a first insulating film arranged on the first conductive layer, an oxide semiconductor layer arranged on the first insulating film, a second conductive layer arranged on the first insulating film and connected to the oxide semiconductor layer, a planarization layer arranged on the oxide semiconductor layer, a first transparent conductive layer in contact with the second conductive layer inside an opening in the planarization layer, and a second transparent conductive layer in contact with the first transparent conductive layer inside the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Akihiro HANADA
  • Patent number: 12159876
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to decrease the resistance of the drain and source in the TFT of the oxide semiconductor as well as to have stable Vd-Id characteristics of the TFT. The structure of the present invention is as follows: A display device having plural pixels including thin film transistors (TFT) having oxide semiconductor films comprising: a gate insulating film formed on the oxide semiconductor film, an aluminum oxide film formed on the gate insulating film, a gate electrode formed on the aluminum oxide film, a side spacer formed on both sides of the gate electrode, and an interlayer insulating film formed on the gate electrode, the side spacer, a drain and a source, wherein in a plan view, and in a direction from the drain to the source, a length of the gate electrode is shorter than a length of the aluminum oxide film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Isao Suzumura
  • Patent number: 12158682
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a viewing angle control element includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electrolyte layer. The first substrate includes a first transparent substrate, a first light-shielding portion and a second light-shielding portion provided between the first transparent substrate and the electrolyte layer, a first transparent insulating layer provided between the first light-shielding portion and the second light-shielding portion, and a first transparent electrode. The first transparent electrode includes a first electrode portion overlapping the first light-shielding portion, a second electrode portion overlapping the second light-shielding portion, and an opening portion overlapping the first transparent insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masaaki Kabe, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 12158674
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which a first light shielding film extending in a first direction and an image signal line are formed on a TFT substrate, the image signal line includes: in a region that does not overlap the first light shielding film, a first portion extending at a first angle with respect to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and, in a region that overlaps the first light shielding film, a second portion extending at a second angle with respect to the second direction, a third portion extending in the second direction, and a fourth portion extending at a fourth angle with respect to the second direction, and the second angle and the fourth angle are larger than the first angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masateru Morimoto, Teppei Yamada
  • Patent number: 12159002
    Abstract: A detection device includes: a sensor having a detection region; electrodes arrayed in a first direction and a second direction in the detection region; a detection circuit configured to generate detection values of the electrodes based on detection signals from the electrodes; and a processing circuit configured to generate spatial coordinates indicating a position of an object to be detected on or above the detection region. The spatial coordinates include first data indicating a position in the first direction, second data indicating a position in the second direction, and third data indicating a position in a third direction. The processing circuit acquires the first to third data based on the detection values and generates the spatial coordinates when at least one of the detection values is equal to or larger than a first threshold and smaller than a second threshold larger than the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takayuki Nakanishi
  • Patent number: 12159596
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, in a display device, a display substrate includes color filters of a plurality of colors arranged in a display area. The color filters are arranged in different colors alternately in a first direction and the same colors in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. A first separation substrate separates wavelength light from received backlight according to the arrangement of the colors in the first direction, and outputs the separated light to a second separation substrate. The second separation substrate separates wavelength light from the received light from the first separation substrate according to the color of each row in the second direction, and outputs the separated light to the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shuichi Osawa, Yoshikatsu Imazeki, Yoichi Kamijo, Koichi Miyasaka, Yoshifumi Kamei
  • Patent number: 12158656
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and a front panel overlapping with the display panel. The front panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate located on an opposite side of the first substrate with respect to the display panel, the front panel has an active region capable of being switched between a display state in which an image is displayed and a reflection state in which a reflected image is provided, and a frame region around the active region, and a metal layer is arranged in the frame region of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hirofumi Ohira, Koji Yoshida
  • Patent number: 12159575
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel circuit provided in each of a plurality of pixels, a plurality of flip-flop circuits provided in a shift register and a reset element provided in each of the flip-flop circuits, and the reset element is an n-channel type transistor, the pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, a light emitting power supply and a switch element, and the light emitting element is disconnected from the light emitting power supply while the light emitting power supply is rising.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kenji Harada, Tetsuo Morita
  • Patent number: 12158677
    Abstract: A display device includes a first conductive layer having a first region extending in a first direction and a second region intersecting the first region on a first substrate, a first insulating film arranged on the first conductive layer, an oxide semiconductor layer arranged along the second region on the first insulating film, a second conductive layer and a third conductive layer connected to the oxide semiconductor layer and arranged along the second region, a second insulating film arranged on the third conductive layer, and a pixel electrode arranged on the second insulating film, wherein the third conductive layer has a third region along the first direction and a fourth region along the second region, and the pixel electrode is connected to the third conductive layer in the third region via an opening in the second insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Masataka Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12158661
    Abstract: A display device includes a first nitride insulating film arranged on a first substrate, a gate electrode arranged along a first direction on the first nitride insulating film, a second nitride insulating film arranged on the gate electrode, a first oxide insulating film arranged on the second nitride insulating film, and an oxide semiconductor layer arranged on the first oxide insulating film, wherein the gate electrode has a first titanium layer, an aluminum layer, and a second titanium layer stacked in order from the first nitride insulating film side, and a thickness of the second titanium layer is greater than a thickness of the first titanium layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hanada, Takuo Kaitoh, Ryo Onodera, Tomoyuki Ito, Yoshinori Tanaka
  • Patent number: 12158679
    Abstract: A display device includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel arranged in a first direction in a display area arranged on a first substrate, a first source wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring extending in the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel, and a first gate wiring, a second gate wiring, and a third wiring intersecting the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel. The first pixel includes a first transistor electrically connected to the first gate wiring and the first source wiring and a liquid crystal element electrically connected to the first transistor, the first pixel to the third pixel are arranged between the first source wiring and the third source wiring, and the second source wiring, and the first source wiring intersects the third source wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Kentaro Kawai, Masataka Ikeda, Hirotaka Hayashi, Yuuji Oomori, Yoshihide Ohue