Patents Assigned to Joled, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20220076626
    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 using efficiency residual ratio representing a deterioration degree of a light-emitting element, and calculates a corrected luminance value therefrom; a current stress calculator which converts current stress amount on a light-emitting element calculated from the corrected luminance value into current stress amount when first reference current flows through the light-emitting element, and accumulates this to calculate an accumulated first stress amount; a CB stress calculator which converts CB stress amount on the light-emitting element into current stress amount when second reference current flows through the light-emitting element, and accumulates this to calculate an accumulated second stress amount; and an efficiency residual ratio calculator which updates the efficiency r
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Eiji IWAUCHI, Kazuki SAWA, Kazuhiro YONEDA
  • Patent number: 11270639
    Abstract: A pixel circuit configured to emit light based on an image signal includes: a light emitting element (organic EL element); a driver transistor configured to adjust current supplied to the light emitting element; and a write transistor connected between a signal line to which the image signal is applied and the driver transistor. The driver transistor includes: a gate electrode; a counter electrode disposed opposite the gate electrode; and a channel disposed between the gate electrode and the counter electrode. A potential applied to the counter electrode in a write period in which the write transistor conducts current in a state in which the image signal is applied to the signal line reduces a resistance value of the driver transistor to lower value than a potential applied to the counter electrode in an emission period of the light emitting element does.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20220068204
    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: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Eiji IWAUCHI, Kazuki SAWA, Kazuhiro YONEDA
  • Publication number: 20220060258
    Abstract: The optical communication system includes a transmitter including a display panel which has a curved surface and is capable of emitting light, and a transmission controller which causes the display panel to emit light representing an information signal; and a receiver including an image sensor which receives the light emitted from the display panel, and a reception controller which extracts the information signal from the light received by the image sensor. The display panel may be a transparent display panel which allows background light to pass through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Atsushi SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20220059789
    Abstract: The display panel is a display panel that is flexible, including: an EL structure layer including a plurality of EL elements arranged two-dimensionally; a foamed resin layer on a side of the EL structure layer that is opposite to a light emitting surface of the EL structure layer; a metal layer provided between the EL structure layer and the foamed resin layer; and a first adhesive layer provided between the EL structure layer and the metal layer and comprises an adhesive having an elastic modulus of 90 kPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Nobuo NAITO, Takahiro SEKI
  • Patent number: 11257890
    Abstract: A display apparatus including: a display region provided with a plurality of pixel portions; wires installed to the respective pixel portions within the display region from an outside of the display region for transmitting a signal to drive the respective pixel portions; connection pads provided on the outside of the display region and serving as input portions to provide the wires with a signal while electrically conducting with the wires; switch elements provided on the outside of the display region in a middle of the wires; and a light shielding covering portion shielding the switch elements from light and formed to cover the connection pads while electrically conducting with the connection pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Shinya Tamonoki, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 11258036
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Jiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220045133
    Abstract: A display panel including pixels each including a self-luminous element and a color filter, including a green light emitting element among the self-luminous elements. The green light emitting element has an optical resonator structure in which a light transmissive metal thin film electrode, a green light emitting layer, and a light reflective electrode are disposed in this order with the light transmissive metal thin film electrode closest to one of the color filters corresponding to the green light emitting element, in order to enhance light intensity of a first wavelength, and the one of the color filters has a light transmittance of 50% or less for light having a second wavelength that is longer than the first wavelength and has a higher visibility characteristic as a green color component than the first wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Toshihiro FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 11245085
    Abstract: Disclosed is a self light-emitting element including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer disposed above the first electrode, a function layer disposed above the light-emitting layer, and doped with a metal, and a second electrode disposed above the function layer, in which the function layer has a multilayer structure of at least three layers including an uppermost layer, a lowermost layer, and an intermediate layer between the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer, and the intermediate layer is doped with the metal at a lower concentration than the uppermost layer and the lowermost layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroki Tsujimura, Kazuhiro Yokota, Hideyuki Shirahase, Kazuhiro Yoneda
  • Publication number: 20220036823
    Abstract: A display device includes: luminance converter that converts an input gradation value into a target luminance value corresponding to the input gradation value; correction calculator that calculates an output gradation value from the target luminance value and calculates a corrected luminance value from the output gradation value using an efficiency residual rate; cumulative stress calculator that updates the efficiency residual rate using a cumulative stress amount obtained by converting a stress amount on the light emitting element calculated from the corrected luminance value into a first stress amount at a reference current and accumulating a second stress amount obtained by converting the converted first stress amount according to a frame rate; and stress amount converter that converts the first stress amount into the second stress amount by multiplying the first stress amount by a conversion coefficient corresponding to the frame rate obtained from the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Eiji IWAUCHI
  • Patent number: 11239436
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a foldable substrate; a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate and each including an electro-optical device; the foldable substrate being folded at a substrate end portion at least on one side thereof around the pixel array section; a peripheral circuit section disposed on the substrate end portion and adapted to drive the pixels of the pixel array section; and a pad section provided on the substrate end portion on which the peripheral circuit section is provided and adapted to electrically connect the peripheral circuit section to the outside of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Minami, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 11239371
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor film, an interlayer insulating film, a source-drain electrode, and a semiconductor auxiliary film. The semiconductor film includes an oxide semiconductor material and has a channel region and a low-resistance region. The low-resistance region has an electric resistance lower than an electric resistance of the channel region. The interlayer insulating film covers the semiconductor film and has a through-hole opposed to the low-resistance region. The source-drain electrode includes a source electrode and a drain electrode and is electrically coupled to the semiconductor film through the through-hole. The semiconductor auxiliary film is in contact with the low-resistance region of the semiconductor film, reduces an electric resistance of the semiconductor film, and has a first opening at least on a part of a portion opposed to the through-hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Terai, Naoki Asano, Takashi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11228005
    Abstract: A light-transmissive organic EL display panel including: a light transmissive substrate; organic EL elements on the substrate, where pixels each including a plurality of organic EL elements arranged along a row direction are arranged in pixel columns arranged in parallel along the row direction, and intervals between the pixel columns are each greater than a width in the row direction of any of the pixel columns; and dummy light emitting layers, wherein each of the organic EL elements included in one of the pixels includes any one of a plurality of organic light emitting materials that emit different colors of light, and the dummy light emitting layers include any one of the plurality of organic light emitting materials and are present above portions of non-pixel regions adjacent to the pixel columns in the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Toshiki Nishikiori
  • Patent number: 11222935
    Abstract: A light-emitting panel includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first regulators, and a plurality of second regulators. The plurality of first regulators extends in a first direction and defines each two of the pixels that are adjacent to each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The plurality of second regulators extends in the second direction and defines each two of the pixels that are adjacent to each other in the first direction. The plurality of pixels at least includes a first pixel and a second pixel that have different lengths in the first direction from each other and share a light-emitting layer. The first pixel and the second pixel are at least adjacent to each other in the first direction with the second regulator being interposed between the first pixel and the second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Masaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 11217759
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible substrate, a self-luminescent element, and a support member. The flexible substrate has a first face and a second face opposed to the first face. The self-luminescent element is provided on the first face of the flexible substrate. The support member includes a magnetic material and is provided on the second face of the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Eiji Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 11217650
    Abstract: A display unit includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic layer, and an auxiliary electrically-conductive layer. The substrate includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixels and a peripheral region outside the pixel region. The first electrode is provided for each of the plurality of pixels in the pixel region on the substrate. The second electrode is opposed to the first electrode, and is provided common for the plurality of pixels. The organic layer is provided between the second electrode and the first electrode, and includes a light-emitting layer. The auxiliary electrically-conductive layer includes an organic electrically-conductive material, and the auxiliary electrically-conductive layer is disposed in the pixel region on the substrate and is electrically coupled to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Terai, Yasuharu Shinokawa, Jiro Yamada, Atsuhito Murai, Masahiko Kondo, Noriteru Maeda
  • Patent number: 11217641
    Abstract: A display unit includes multiple pixels, a first electrode, a partition wall, a light emission layer, and a second electrode. The multiple pixels each have a light emission region and a non-light emission region along a first direction. The first electrode is provided in the light emission region in each of the multiple pixels. The partition wall is provided between each two of the pixels that are adjacent to each other in a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The light emission layer covers the first electrode and is provided in the light emission region and the non-light emission region in a continuous manner. The second electrode faces the first electrode across the light emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Atsuhito Murai, Jiro Yamada, Yasuhiro Terai, Masahiko Kondo, Noriteru Maeda
  • Patent number: 11211437
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an organic EL display panel including: preparing a substrate; forming pixel electrodes in a matrix of rows and columns; forming banks extending in a column direction at least between the pixel electrodes in a row direction; forming a first light emitting layer by applying an ink including a light emitting material in a first gap selected from a plurality of gaps between the banks; forming a second light emitting layer by a vapor deposition method to be continuous above both the first light emitting layer and the pixel electrodes in a second gap adjacent in the row direction to the first gap; and forming a counter electrode above the second light emitting layer, a height of portions of the banks adjacent to the second gap is made to be greater than a height of portions of the banks adjacent to the first gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Isao Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11201309
    Abstract: A display unit is provided with a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels each include a first electrode, an insulating film, an organic layer, and a second electrode. The insulating film is provided on the first electrode, and has openings. The organic layer is provided in each of the openings of the insulating film, and includes a light-emitting layer. The second electrode is provided on the organic layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of sub-electrodes that are provided to face the respective openings of the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Kaoru Abe, Jiro Yamada, Kazuma Teramoto, Kenichi Nendai, Hideki Kobayashi, Masaki Nishimura
  • Patent number: RE48931
    Abstract: A luminescent display device includes a substrate and a thin-film transistor above the substrate. The thin-film transistor includes a semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film on the semiconductor layer, a gate electrode on the gate insulating film, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The luminescent display device further includes an interlayer insulating film on the gate electrode, a first capacitor electrode on the interlayer insulating film in a region above the gate electrode, and a luminescent element configured to be driven by a driver to produce luminescence. The driver includes the thin-film transistor, and the first capacitor electrode and the gate electrode constitute a capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Shinya Ono