Patents Assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.
  • Patent number: 11984093
    Abstract: The amplitude voltage of a signal input to a level shifter can be increased and then output by the level shifter circuit. Specifically, the amplitude voltage of the signal input to the level shifter can be increased to be output. This decreases the amplitude voltage of a circuit (a shift register circuit, a decoder circuit, or the like) which outputs the signal input to the level shifter. Consequently, power consumption of the circuit can be reduced. Alternatively, a voltage applied to a transistor included in the circuit can be reduced. This can suppress degradation of the transistor or damage to the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Koyama, Atsushi Umezaki
  • Patent number: 11984562
    Abstract: A highly safe power storage system is provided. If n (n is an integer over or equal to three) secondary batteries are used in a vehicle such as an electric vehicle, a circuit configuration is used with which the condition of each secondary battery is monitored using an anomaly detection unit; and if an anomaly such as a micro-short circuit is detected, only the detected anomalous secondary battery is electrically separated from the charging system or the discharging system. At least one microcomputer monitors anomalies in n secondary batteries consecutively, selects the anomalous secondary battery or the detected secondary battery which causes an anomaly, and gives an instruction to bypass the secondary battery with each switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryota Tajima, Toshiyuki Isa, Akihiro Chida
  • Patent number: 11984064
    Abstract: A display apparatus having a wide range of threshold voltage compensation function is provided. In the display apparatus, a p-channel transistor is used as a driving transistor of the light-emitting device. Discharging is performed through a source-drain path while constant voltage is supplied to a gate so that Vth is extracted between the gate and the source. In addition, when a drain potential is set to the sum of forward voltage and a cathode potential of the light-emitting device or a potential sufficiently lower than the sum, it is possible to continue the discharging even when Vth is positive voltage. That is, compensation can be performed even in the case where Vth variation occurs from positive voltage to negative voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Kawashima, Koji Kusunoki, Kazunori Watanabe, Satoshi Yoshimoto
  • Patent number: 11984147
    Abstract: A semiconductor device storing data as a multilevel potential is provided. The semiconductor device includes a memory cell, first and second reference cells, first and second sense amplifiers, and first to third circuits. The first circuit has a function of outputting, to a first wiring and a third wiring, a first potential corresponding to a first signal output from the memory cell. The second circuit has a function of outputting, to a second wiring, a first reference potential corresponding to a second signal output from the first reference cell. The third circuit has a function of outputting, to the fourth wiring, a second reference potential corresponding to a third signal output from the second reference cell when a second switch is in an off state. The first sense amplifier refers to the first potential and the first reference potential and changes potentials of the first wiring and the second wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Matsuzaki, Tatsuya Onuki, Yuki Okamoto, Toshiki Hamada
  • Patent number: 11983793
    Abstract: A novel human interface with excellent operability is provided. A novel data processing device with excellent operability is provided. A novel data processing device, a novel display device, or the like is provided. An input and output device is supplied with image data and supplies sensing data, and an arithmetic device supplies the image data and is supplied with the sensing data. The input and output device includes a plurality of display portions that display display data and a sensing portion that senses an object obscuring one of the display portions, and includes one region provided with the one of the display portions and the sensing portion, another region provided with the other display portions, and a curved portion between the one region and the other region. The arithmetic device includes an arithmetic portion and a memory portion that stores a program to be executed by the arithmetic portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiharu Hirakata, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11985828
    Abstract: An object is to provide a semiconductor device with large memory capacity. The semiconductor device includes first to seventh insulators, a first conductor, and a first semiconductor. The first conductor is positioned on a first top surface of the first insulator and a first bottom surface of the second insulator. The third insulator is positioned in a region including a side surface and a second top surface of the first insulator, a side surface of the first conductor, and a second bottom surface and a side surface of the second insulator. The fourth insulator, the fifth insulator, and the first semiconductor are sequentially stacked on the third insulator. The sixth insulator is in contact with the fifth insulator in a region overlapping the first conductor. The seventh insulator is positioned in a region including the first semiconductor and the sixth insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Kimura, Tatsunori Inoue
  • Patent number: 11984152
    Abstract: A memory device having long data retention time and high reliability is provided. The memory device includes a driver circuit and a plurality of memory cells, the memory cell includes a transistor and a capacitor, and the transistor includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region. The transistor includes a first gate and a second gate, and in a period during which the memory cell retains data, negative potentials are applied to the first gate and the second gate of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kiyoshi Kato, Takahiko Ishizu, Tatsuya Onuki
  • Patent number: 11985890
    Abstract: An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a novel organic compound. The organic compound is a triarylamine derivative. The triarylamine derivative has an aryl group including a skeleton in which a naphthyl group is bonded to a naphthylene group. The other two aryl groups are each independently a phenyl group, a biphenyl group, or a terphenyl group. These groups may each have a substituent. As the substituent, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms can be selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawakami, Anna Tada, Yusuke Takita, Tsunenori Suzuki, Naoaki Hashimoto, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20240152012
    Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate provided with a driver circuit region that is located outside and adjacent to a pixel region and includes at least one second transistor which supplies a signal to the first transistor in each of the pixels in the pixel region, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the first transistor and the second transistor, a second interlayer insulating film including an organic insulating material over the first interlayer insulating film, and a third interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the second interlayer insulating film. The third interlayer insulating film is provided in part of an upper region of the pixel region, and has an edge portion on an inner side than the driver circuit region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuharu HOSAKA, Yukinori SHIMA, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240155863
    Abstract: A light-emitting device having high heat resistance in a manufacturing process is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yui Yoshiyasu, Naoaki Hashimoto, Tatsuyoshi TAKAHASHI, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20240155933
    Abstract: When a base film used in a flexible display panel is bonded to a resin member for fixing the base film that is curved, the base film has creases by an environmental change such as temperature due to difference in linear expansion coefficient before and after a thermal shock. A buffer plate that is thin enough to be bent is provided between the base film used in a flexible display panel and the resin member. With the use of heat dissipation effect and heat equalization effect of the buffer plate, a structure around the panel capable of resisting the environmental change can be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki NAKAMURA, Kazuhiko FUJITA
  • Publication number: 20240154040
    Abstract: A semiconductor device capable of measuring a minute current is provided. The semiconductor device includes an operational amplifier and a diode element. An inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and an input terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a first terminal to which current is input, and an output terminal of the operational amplifier and an output terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a second terminal from which voltage is output. A diode-connected transistor that includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region is used as the diode element. Since the off-state current of the transistor is extremely low, a minute current can flow between the first terminal and the second terminal. Thus, when voltage is output from the second terminal, a minute current that flows through the first terminal can be estimated from the voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eri SATO, Tatsuya Onuki, Yuto Yakubo, Hitoshi Kunitake
  • Publication number: 20240155871
    Abstract: A display device with high display quality is provided. A highly reliable display device is provided. A display device with low power consumption is provided. A display device that can easily achieve a higher resolution is provided. A display device with both high display quality and a high resolution is provided. A display device with high contrast is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi YANAGISAWA, Yasumasa YAMANE
  • Patent number: 11978742
    Abstract: A metal oxide film including a crystal part and having highly stable physical properties is provided. The size of the crystal part is less than or equal to 10 nm, which allows the observation of circumferentially arranged spots in a nanobeam electron diffraction pattern of the cross section of the metal oxide film when the measurement area is greater than or equal to 5 nm? and less than or equal to 10 nm?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Takahashi, Takuya Hirohashi, Masashi Tsubuku, Noritaka Ishihara, Masashi Oota
  • Patent number: 11980087
    Abstract: A triarylamine derivative represented by a general formula (G1) given below is provided. Note that in the formula, Ar represents either a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; ? represents a substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl group; ? represents either hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted naphthyl group; n and m each independently represent 1 or 2; and R1 to R8 each independently represent any of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or a phenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harue Osaka, Takahiro Ushikubo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Satoshi Seo, Tsunenori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11978741
    Abstract: An object is to provide a display device which operates stably with use of a transistor having stable electric characteristics. In manufacture of a display device using transistors in which an oxide semiconductor layer is used for a channel formation region, a gate electrode is further provided over at least a transistor which is applied to a driver circuit. In manufacture of a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer is used for a channel formation region, the oxide semiconductor layer is subjected to heat treatment so as to be dehydrated or dehydrogenated; thus, impurities such as moisture existing in an interface between the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate insulating layer provided below and in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and an interface between the oxide semiconductor layer and a protective insulating layer provided on and in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Junichiro Sakata, Toshinari Sasaki, Miyuki Hosoba
  • Patent number: 11977415
    Abstract: A sturdy electronic device is provided. A reliable electronic device is provided. A novel electronic device is provided. An electronic device includes a first board, a second board, a display portion having flexibility, and a power storage device having flexibility. The first board and the second board face each other. The display portion and the power storage device are provided between the first board and the second board. The display portion includes a first surface facing the power storage device. The first surface includes a first region not fixed to the power storage device. The first region overlaps with a display region of the display portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaaki Hiroki
  • Patent number: 11977410
    Abstract: A novel electronic device is provided. Alternatively an electronic device of a novel embodiment is provided. An electronic device includes a support and a display portion. The support has a first curved surface. The display portion is provided over the support. The display portion has a top surface and a side surface in contact with at least one side of the top surface. The side surface has a second curved surface. The top surface includes a first display region. The side surface includes a second display region. The first display region and the second display region are continuously provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Kuwabara, Masaaki Hiroki
  • Publication number: 20240147852
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Takao Hamada, Tatsuyoshi Takahashi, Yasushi Kitano, Hiroki Suzuki, Hideko Inoue
  • Publication number: 20240147758
    Abstract: A display device including display regions with inconspicuous seam is provided. The display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel. The first display panel includes a first display region and a visible-light-transmitting region. The second display panel includes a second display region. The first display region is adjacent to the visible-light-transmitting region. The first display region includes a first light-emitting element and a second light-emitting element. A first common electrode included in the first light-emitting element includes a portion in contact with a second common electrode included in the second light-emitting element. The first common electrode has a function of reflecting visible light. The second common electrode has a function of transmitting visible light. The second light-emitting element is positioned closer to the visible-light-transmitting region than the first light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daiki NAKAMURA, Nozomu SUGISAWA