Patents Assigned to Japan Display Inc.
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Publication number: 20250130463Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules. The array substrate includes signal lines arrayed in a first direction, scanning lines arrayed in a second direction, pixel electrodes disposed respectively in openings of pixels, semiconductors provided respectively to the pixels, and a common electrode overlapping the pixel electrodes with an insulating film interposed therebetween. An end of each pixel electrode overlaps the opening of a corresponding one of the pixels. A slit of the common electrode has a polygonal shape. In the opening of each pixel, a first part of the slit overlaps the pixel electrode, and a second part of the slit overlaps a region not provided with the pixel electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Shunichi KIMURA, Toshiharu MATSUSHIMA
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Publication number: 20250133916Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate having display and surrounding areas, an organic insulating layer, a lower electrode above the organic insulating layer, a rib layer having a pixel aperture, a first partition in the display area, an organic layer contacting the lower electrode, an upper electrode covering the organic layer, and a second partition in the surrounding area. Each of the first and second partitions includes a lower portion and an upper portion having an end portion which protrudes from a side surface of the lower portion. The second partition includes segments spaced apart from each other. The rib layer has a slit surrounding at least one of the segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Naoya IWAHASHI, Sho YANAGISAWA, Hideyuki TAKAHASHI
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Publication number: 20250133913Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate having a display area and a surrounding area, an organic insulating layer formed of an organic insulating material, a rib layer which covers the organic insulating layer and has pixel apertures, and display elements overlapping the pixel apertures. The substrate has a first side. The organic insulating layer has a second side between the first side and the display area as seen in plan view, and a protrusion which protrudes from the second side toward the first side as seen in plan view and is provided at a position distant from an end portion of the second side. Further, the rib layer has a first slit overlapping the protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Sho YANAGISAWA
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Publication number: 20250133914Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes an organic insulating layer provided over a display area and a surrounding area, a lower electrode provided in the display area, an inorganic insulating layer provided on the organic insulating layer, an organic layer provided on the lower electrode, an upper electrode provided on the organic layer, and a plurality of surrounding partitions provided in the surrounding area. The organic insulating layer has a removed portion along an outer edge of a substrate in the surrounding area. The inorganic insulating layer has a loop groove which surrounds the display area in the surrounding area. The surrounding partitions include a pair of first partitions facing each other across the groove.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Ryota TAKASAKI, Naoya IWAHASHI, Sho YANAGISAWA
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Publication number: 20250133892Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a substrate as well as a plurality of pixels and at least one reflective element located over the substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels has a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, and the light-emitting element has a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a first stack structure over the pixel electrode, and a common electrode over the first stack structure. At least one reflective element has a lower electrode, a second stack structure over the lower electrode, and a reflective film overlapping the second stack structure. Each of the first stack structure and the second stack structure includes a plurality of inorganic semiconductor layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masumi NISHIMURA
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Patent number: 12284831Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology using which, in a thin film transistor using oxide semiconductor, the resistance of a channel region of the oxide semiconductor is made high, and at the same time the resistances of a source region and a drain region of the oxide semiconductor are made low. There is provided a semiconductor device including: a thin film transistor including oxide semiconductor, the oxide semiconductor including a channel region, a drain region, and a source region; a gate insulating film formed on the channel region; an aluminum oxide film formed on the gate insulating film; and a gate electrode formed on the aluminum oxide film, wherein the aluminum oxide film has a region that covers neither the drain region nor the source region in a plane view.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akihiro Hanada, Toshihide Jinnai
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Patent number: 12282235Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device, a common electrode is formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the common electrode, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on the interlayer insulating film, and a through hole is formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, so that the pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of a TFT through the through hole. Further, the taper angle around the upper base of the through hole is smaller than the taper angle around the lower base. Thus, the alignment film material can easily flow into the through hole when the diameter of the through hole is reduced to connect the pixel and source electrodes, preventing display defects such as uneven brightness due to the absence of the alignment film or due to the alignment film irregularity around the through hole.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Yosuke Hyodo, Hidehiro Sonoda, Noboru Kunimatsu
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Patent number: 12282639Abstract: Disclosed is a sensor module including a first substrate having an insulating property, a plurality of sensor electrodes over the first substrate, a second substrate having an insulating property over the plurality of sensor electrodes, at least one charge-dispersing film over the second substrate, and a third substrate over the at least one charge-dispersing film. The at least one charge-dispersing film may consist of one charge-dispersing film overlapping all of the plurality of sensor electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yuto Kakinoki
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Patent number: 12282609Abstract: A detecting device includes a sensor unit having a detection region in which a plurality of electrodes are arrayed, and a detector configured to detect a gesture corresponding to movement of an object to be detected in a space on the detection region based on a detected value of each of the electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yuto Kakinoki
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Patent number: 12283583Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels provided to the substrate, a plurality of mounting electrodes and a plurality of light-emitting elements provided to the pixels, a first region provided at a center part of a display region of the substrate, and a second region provided closer to an outer end of the substrate than the first region in the display region of the substrate. Number of the mounting electrodes included in each of the pixels in the first region is equal to number of the mounting electrodes included in each of the pixels in the second region, and number of the light-emitting elements included in each of the pixels in the first region is larger than number of the light-emitting elements included in each of the pixels in the second region.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Masanobu Ikeda
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Patent number: 12283581Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element mounted on the substrate, an anode terminal disposed on an bottom portion of the light-emitting element and a cathode terminal disposed on an emitting surface of the light emitting element, on an opposite side to the anode terminal, and the cathode terminal is formed of a metal material.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yasuhiro Kanaya
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Patent number: 12284754Abstract: According to one embodiment, a flexible substrate includes an insulating basement, a plurality of wiring lines, a plurality of electrical elements connected to the plurality of wiring lines, and a metal layer. The insulating basement includes a plurality of line portions supporting the plurality of wiring lines, and a plurality of island-shaped portions supporting the plurality of electrical elements. The plurality of line portions connect the plurality of island-shaped portions. The plurality of wiring lines and the electrical elements are located between the insulating basement and the metal layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yasushi Kawata
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Patent number: 12283579Abstract: A display device includes a display region in which a plurality of pixel portions is arranged in a matrix on a substrate, each of the plurality of pixel portions including an LED chip, a transistor, and a capacitor. Through the transistor, a first electrode of the LED chip is connected to a first wiring to which one of power supply voltages is supplied. A second electrode of the LED chip is connected to a second wiring to which another of the power supply voltages is supplied. A first electrode of the capacitor is connected to the first electrode of the LED chip. The plurality of pixel portions includes at least one first pixel portion which is located on an outermost periphery of the display region and at least one second pixel portion which is not located on the outermost periphery of the display region.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Yoshinori Aoki, Masanobu Ikeda
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Patent number: 12282224Abstract: A backlight includes: a light source capable of emitting light spreading in first and second directions perpendicular to each other, from an optical axis; a first cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the first cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions; a second cylindrical lens that refracts and brings the light even closer along the first direction to the optical axis, the second cylindrical lens overlapping with the light source and the first cylindrical lens in the third direction; and a reflector that reflects and brings the light closer along the second direction to the optical axis, the reflector being positioned between the first cylindrical lens and the second cylindrical lens in the third direction, the reflector avoiding overlap with the light source.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2024Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takashi Ota, Michihide Shibata, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Masafumi Okada
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Patent number: 12282217Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scanning lines; a grid-shaped organic insulating layer that extends along the scanning lines and the signal lines and overlies the scanning lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes provided in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines; and a first orientation film that covers the pixel electrodes. A portion of each pixel electrodes overlaps a slant surface of the organic insulating layer. The counter substrate includes: a common electrode overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a protective film that has an insulating capability and a light transmitting capability and covers a side of the common electrode facing the array substrate at least in the display region; and a second orientation film that covers the protective film.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Sugiyama, Kentaro Okuyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Yuuji Oomori
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Publication number: 20250126961Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting element including an anode, a cathode, and an electroluminescence layer between the anode and the cathode. The electroluminescence layer includes an electron-blocking layer and an emission layer. The electron-blocking layer contains an electron-blocking material. The emission layer is located over and in contact with the electron-blocking layer and contains a host material and a first emission material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The light-emitting element is configured so that a resistance is equal to or greater than 101.0% and equal to or less than 104.0% of a resistance in a case where the electron-blocking material is replaced with the host material. The resistance is a resistance between the anode and the cathode when a current flows at a constant current density between the anode and the cathode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Nobuto MANAGAKI
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Publication number: 20250123523Abstract: A display device includes a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels on an insulating surface, and a terminal region with a plurality of output terminals electrically connected to the plurality of pixels in a peripheral region surrounding the display region, wherein a first output terminal and a second output terminal of the plurality of output terminals are staggered, the first output terminal includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer electrically connected to each other, the second output terminal includes a fourth conductive layer, a fifth conductive layer, and a sixth conductive layer electrically connected to each other, the second conductive layer has a first region extending toward the display region and functioning as a first wiring, and the fourth conductive layer has a second region extending toward the display region and functioning as a second wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akihiko SAITOH, Hiroyuki ABE
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Publication number: 20250126845Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to suppress a variation in a threshold voltage (? Vth) in a Thin Film Transistor (TFT) using an oxide semiconductor. The present invention takes a structure as follows to attain this purpose. A semiconductor device having TFT using an oxide semiconductor including: a channel region, a source region, a drain region, and a transition region between the channel region and the source region and between the channel region and the drain region, in which a resistivity of the transition region is smaller than that of the channel region, and larger than that of the source region or the drain region; a source electrode is formed overlapping the source region, and a drain electrode is formed overlapping the drain region; and a thickness of the transition region of the oxide semiconductor is larger than a thickness of the channel region of the oxide semiconductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Akihiro HANADA, Takuo KAITOH, Masashi TSUBUKU
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Publication number: 20250123524Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a switching element, a common electrode, an insulating film covering the common electrode, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element in a first contact hole penetrating the insulating film, and a transparent conductive film electrically connected to the common electrode in a second contact hole penetrating the insulating film. The first pixel electrode and the transparent conductive film are arranged in a first direction in a same layer. A size of the first contact hole and a size of the second contact hole are different from each other in planar view.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Hideki SHIINA
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Publication number: 20250126969Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting element including an anode, a cathode, and an electroluminescence layer between the anode and the cathode. The electroluminescence layer includes: an electron-blocking layer; a buffer layer over the electron-blocking layer; and an emission layer located over the buffer layer and containing a host material and a first emission material exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence. The buffer layer contains the host material. The emission layer may further include a second emission material. An energy level of a singlet excited state of the second emission material is lower than an energy level of a singlet excited state of the first emission material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Nobuto MANAGAKI