Patents Assigned to Joled, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230237962
    Abstract: A current limiting circuit is a circuit that receives a video signal for a display panel including pixels, and limits current consumption of the pixels. The current limiting circuit includes: a first gain calculation circuit that calculates a first gain for multiplying with the video signal, based on first power consumption that is power consumption of the pixels corresponding to the video signal; a second gain calculation circuit that calculates a second gain for multiplying with the video signal, based on the first power consumption and a rate of change of the first power consumption; a gain selection circuit that selects one of the first gain and the second gain as a gain by which the video signal is to be multiplied; and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the video signal by the gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Manabu FUJIWARA
  • Patent number: 11678571
    Abstract: A compound of formula (7) is provided wherein L4 is a linking group selected from the group consisting of: provided that an asterisk (*) indicates the position bonding to the nitrogen atom of the carbazolyl group, R6 to R13 are independently a hydrogen atom, or a phenyl group, Ar17 is an unsubstituted phenylphenyl group, and Ar18 is a phenylphenyl group which may be substituted by a phenyl group or a naphthyl group, or a phenyl group which may be substituted by a naphthyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Emiko Kambe, Akifumi Nakamura, Yasunori Kijima, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Shigeyuki Matsunami
  • Patent number: 11678508
    Abstract: A display includes a display panel, a shock dispersion layer, a strain relaxation layer, and a shock absorption layer. The shock dispersion layer is provided on a light-extraction side of the display panel and has a Young's modulus of 50 GPa or greater. The strain relaxation layer is provided between the shock dispersion layer and the display panel and has a Young's modulus lower than the Young's modulus of the shock dispersion layer. The shock absorption layer is provided between the strain relaxation layer and the display panel and has a storage modulus of 10 kPa or greater and 1 MPa or less at a room temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Seki, Katsumasa Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11678539
    Abstract: A display unit includes a substrate including a pixel region including a plurality of pixels and a peripheral region. The display unit includes a plurality of first electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes is in a corresponding pixel of the plurality of pixels. The display unit includes a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, wherein the second electrode is common for all of the plurality of pixels. The display unit includes an organic layer between the second electrode and the plurality of first electrodes, wherein the organic layer includes a light-emitting layer. The display unit includes a wiring layer between the substrate and the plurality of first electrodes. The display unit includes an auxiliary electrically-conductive layer including an organic electrically-conductive material, wherein the auxiliary electrically-conductive layer is electrically coupled to the second electrode. The auxiliary electrically-conductive layer is in a recess in the wiring layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Terai, Yasuharu Shinokawa, Jiro Yamada, Atsuhito Murai, Masahiko Kondo, Noriteru Maeda
  • Patent number: 11672140
    Abstract: A self-luminous display panel including a first substrate, an insulating resin layer, self-luminous elements, a sealing layer, an attachment layer, and a second substrate, and the insulating resin layer includes an inner insulating sublayer and an outer insulating sublayer with a groove therebetween, the groove being provided in a peripheral region and surrounding an image display region, the attachment layer includes a peripheral sealing layer that is positioned inside a peripheral portion of the second substrate and a joining layer that is positioned in a range surrounded by the peripheral sealing layer, and when viewed in a cross section perpendicular to a main surface of the first substrate and across the groove, the peripheral sealing layer is at least partially positioned on the outer insulating sublayer, and an inner end portion of the peripheral sealing layer extends to the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Akifumi Okigawa, Kenji Harada
  • Publication number: 20230169920
    Abstract: A current limiting circuit includes: a delay circuit that receives a video signal, and outputs a delay signal obtained by delaying the video signal by a time period corresponding to one frame; a calculation circuit that receives the video signal, and calculates a gain by which the delay signal is to be multiplied, based on power consumption of the pixels corresponding to the delay signal and power consumption of the pixels corresponding to the video signal; and a gain multiplication circuit that multiplies the delay signal by the gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 11653553
    Abstract: A functional layer forming ink used in forming a functional layer of the self-luminous element by a printing method, the ink including functional material dissolved or dispersed in a mixed solvent including solvents having different boiling points. When one or more solvents are selected from the solvents of the mixed solvent in descending order of boiling point until a mass ratio of the selection to the mixed solvent is a defined ratio or more, the one or more solvents in the selection are included in a solvent group of solvents that have a contact angle of 5° or less with respect to a defined resin material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Masakazu Takata
  • Publication number: 20230130414
    Abstract: A control device is for use in a case where frame periods, each being a period in which one image continues to be displayed, vary in length within a given range or temporarily become stable in length on a frame-by-frame basis, and accurate lengths of the frame periods are not known beforehand. The control device changes a total number of subframe periods to reconfigure the frame period with n subframe periods, where n is an integer of two or more, regardless of the frame period input, and causes the display of the image. The control device includes a signal processor that outputs an output video signal according to a first input video signal on a subframe-period-by-subframe-period basis; and a controller that supplies the output video signal output from the signal processor and a control signal for controlling an operation of the display panel to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ISHII, Toshiyuki KATO
  • Patent number: 11631372
    Abstract: A pixel circuit driving method is a method for driving a pixel circuit that includes a drive transistor that supplies a current corresponding to a signal voltage supplied via a signal line, a write transistor connected between the signal line and a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an organic EL element that emits light in accordance with the current. The pixel circuit driving method includes supplying a reference potential to the gate electrode of the drive transistor before a threshold correction preparation operation of making a gate-source voltage of the drive transistor higher than a threshold voltage of the drive transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Kenji Kokuda, Hitoshi Tsuge, Teppei Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20230110329
    Abstract: A control device for a display panel for applications where a frame period in which a same image continues to be displayed varies from frame to frame within a certain range or the frame period is temporarily stable across frames and where a precise frame period is undetermined beforehand. The control device controls the display panel such that, when a frame having a length exceeding a preset number of lines is input, the display panel displays an image over a frame period corresponding to the preset number of lines and an added period added after the frame period. The added period includes one or more individual added periods each including a light emission period and a light extinction period, and the one or more individual added periods are each a period corresponding a predetermined number of lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroaki ISHII, Toshiyuki KATO
  • Publication number: 20230077438
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels; a plurality of write signal lines to which a control signal for selecting a pixel row in which a data voltage is to be written is supplied; a WS signal gate driver that supplies the control signal; a plurality of data voltage lines for writing a data voltage; a data driver that supplies the data voltage; a selector circuit that switches a data voltage line to which the data voltage is supplied; a selector control line to which a control signal for controlling the selector circuit is supplied; and a controller that supplies the control signal. The plurality of pixels include a first pixel and a second pixel belonging to a same pixel row. The WS signal gate driver supplies the control signal in a first direction. The controller supplies the control signal in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Masanori OHARA
  • Patent number: 11594707
    Abstract: A self-luminous display panel including light-emitting elements 100, column banks 122Y, and a light-shielding film 133. The light-emitting elements 100 correspond one-to-one with sub-pixels 100se, each sub-pixel 100se in a pixel emitting a different color of light. The column banks 122Y are disposed between the light-emitting elements 100 in a row direction, each having an elongated shape in a column direction. The light-shielding film 133 has openings 133a at positions corresponding to the light-emitting elements 100 in plan view, downstream in a light emission direction of the light-emitting elements 100. In plan view, distances in the row direction between edges of the openings 133a of the light-shielding film 133 and defined points of the light-emitting elements 100 are different depending on light emission color of the light-emitting elements 100, due to different widths of portions of the column banks 122Y adjacent to the light-emitting elements 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 11586244
    Abstract: A display unit which can realize reduction in thickness and weight of the display unit by omitting a void between a touch panel and a display panel, and its manufacturing method. Whole faces of the touch panel and the display panel are directly bonded together with an adhesive layer in between. The display panel has a structure wherein a driving substrate in which organic light emitting devices are formed and a sealing substrate are bonded together with an adhesive layer in between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Yuichi Iwase
  • Patent number: 11568812
    Abstract: A display device includes: a luminance converter which converts input gradation value into a corresponding target luminance value; a luminance correction calculator which calculates output gradation value from the target luminance value and calculates a corrected luminance value from the output gradation value, using an efficiency residual ratio which is an index representing the light-emitting element deterioration degree; a current stress calculator which converts current stress amount on the light-emitting element calculated from the corrected luminance value into current stress amount when reference current flows through the light-emitting element, and calculates the accumulated current stress amount; a temperature stress calculator which converts temperature stress amount on the light-emitting element under environmental temperature into temperature stress amount on the light-emitting element under reference temperature, and calculates the accumulated current stress amount; and an efficiency residual rat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Eiji Iwauchi, Kazuki Sawa, Kazuhiro Yoneda
  • Patent number: 11532796
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible substrate, a display device layer, a polarizing plate, and a warpage suppressing member. The flexible substrate has a front surface on a front surface side and a back surface on a back surface side. The display device layer is provided on the front surface side of the flexible substrate and includes a self-luminescent element. The polarizing plate is opposed to the flexible substrate across the display device layer and has a predetermined dimensional change characteristic corresponding to environmental change. The warpage suppressing member is provided on the back surface side of the flexible substrate and has a dimensional change characteristic of the same tendency as the dimensional change characteristic of the polarizing plate. The warpage suppressing member is configured to cancel at least a portion of warping stress of the polarizing plate to be applied to the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Makoto Noda, Hiroki Kato
  • Patent number: 11515504
    Abstract: A display panel including a metal film, an adhesive layer disposed on the metal film, a first resin substrate disposed on the adhesive layer, light-emitting elements disposed above the first resin substrate, and a second resin substrate disposed above the light-emitting elements. The adhesive layer includes contact portions in contact with the metal film and gaps are present between the contact portions where the adhesive layer is not in contact with the metal film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Kato, Makoto Noda
  • Publication number: 20220375419
    Abstract: A control method is provided for suppressing a flicker phenomenon even if frame periods vary in length. The control method controls an emission period and an extinction period of a frame period, which is a period in which one image continues to be displayed. When a signal indicating start of a frame period is detected, as the frame period, n subframe periods that configure the frame period, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, are sequentially started from the first subframe period, after a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the detection of the signal. All of the n subframe periods are controlled to have a substantially same length determined in advance and to have a substantially same ratio between the emission period and the extinction period, determined in advance, the ratio being referred to as a duty ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Hiroaki ISHII
  • Patent number: 11508300
    Abstract: A display device includes: pixels arranged in a matrix; a plurality of write signal lines for selecting a pixel row to which a data voltage is to be written; a gate driver that supplies a gate signal; a plurality of data signal lines for writing the data voltage; a data driver that supplies the data voltage; a data selector circuit that supplies, per at least one data signal line by time division, the data voltage; and a controller. Each of the pixels includes a light-emitting element, a capacitor element, and a drive transistor that supplies a current in accordance with the voltage held by the capacitor element to the light-emitting element. The controller causes the gate driver and the data driver to perform an initialization operation on pixels in a second pixel row after a period during which a write operation is performed on pixels in a first pixel row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Shigeo Homura
  • Patent number: 11508928
    Abstract: A self-luminous element includes: a pixel electrode; a light-emitting layer that is disposed above the pixel electrode and includes a light-emitting material; a first functional layer that is disposed on the light-emitting layer and includes a metal fluoride; a second functional layer that is disposed on the first functional layer and includes a first organic material having at least one of electron transport properties and electron injection properties; and a counter electrode that is disposed above the second functional layer. The second functional layer does not include at least one metallic element selected from the group consisting of alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, and rare earth metals that reduce the metal fluoride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Kosuke Mishima
  • Patent number: 11508907
    Abstract: An ink used in forming a functional layer of a self-luminous element by a printing method, the ink including a functional material and a mixed solvent. The mixed solvent includes solvents each having different vapor pressures. The functional material is dissolved or dispersed in the mixed solvent. A solvent that has a lowest vapor pressure among the solvents has a viscosity of at least 53 mPa·s, and a viscosity of the mixed solvent is 15 mPa·s or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Masakazu Takata