Patents Assigned to UDC Ireland Limited
  • Patent number: 11968893
    Abstract: Disclosed are electroluminescent devices that comprise organic layers that contain certain organic compounds containing one ore more pyrimidine moieties. The organic compounds containing one ore more pyrimidine moieties are suitable components of blue-emitting, durable, organo-electroluminescent layers. The electroluminescent devices may be employed for full color display panels in for example mobile phones, televisions and personal computer screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Schafer, Patrice Bujard, Jonathan Rogers, Kristina Bardon
  • Patent number: 11937504
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes; and an organic layer between the pair of electrodes, which includes a light-emitting layer, wherein the organic layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (I); and the light-emitting layer contains a iridium complex phosphorescent material: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and contiguous substituents of R1 to R8 may be bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; R9 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a hetero-aryl group, or a silyl group, and each of which group may be substituted with a substituent; and at least one of R1 to R9 represents a deuterium atom or a substituent containing a deuterium atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventor: Akira Takeda
  • Patent number: 11932659
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes and electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices containing said metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Christian Ehrenreich
  • Patent number: 11917901
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal complexes of formula (1): M(L)n(L?)m??(1) which comprises a moiety M(L)n of formula (2): and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Dominik Joosten, Esther Breuning, Joachim Kaiser
  • Patent number: 11917903
    Abstract: The present invention relates to binuclear, trinuclear and tetranuclear metal complexes and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Philipp Stoessel, Christian Ehrenreich, Armin Auch
  • Patent number: 11871654
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroleptic complexes comprising a phenylimidazole or phenyltriazole unit bonded via a carbene bond to a central metal atom, and phenylimidazole ligands attached via a nitrogen-metal bond to the central atom, to OLEDs which comprise such heteroleptic complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such heteroleptic complex, to a device selected from the group consisting of illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED, to the use of such a heteroleptic complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Evelyn Fuchs, Oliver Molt, Korinna Dormann, Thomas Gessner, Nicolle Langer, Ingo Muenster, JianQiang Qu, Christian Lennartz, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Guenter Schmid, Herbert Friedrich Boerner, Volker van Elsbergen
  • Patent number: 11844229
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element which has a substrate, a pair of electrodes disposed on this substrate and composed of an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic layer disposed between these electrodes and including a light-emitting layer, and in which a compound expressed by General Formula 1-1 is contained in at least one layer of the aforementioned light-emitting layer(s) exhibits high luminous efficiency, excellent blue color purity, and little change in chromaticity accompanying drive deterioration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Tetsu Kitamura, Koji Takaku, Wataru Sotoyama, Yasunori Yonekuta, Toshihiro Ise, Saki Takada, Toru Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11839140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to metal-carbene complexes comprising a central atom selected from iridium and platinum, and diazabenzimidazolocarbene ligands, to organic light diodes which comprise such complexes, to light-emitting layers comprising at least one such metal-carbene complex, to a device selected from the group comprising illuminating elements, stationary visual display units and mobile visual display units comprising such an OLED and to the use of such a metal-carbene complex in OLEDs, for example as emitter, matrix material, charge transport material and/or charge or exciton blocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Oliver Molt, Nicolle Langer, Evelyn Fuchs, Korinna Dormann, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Gerhard Wagenblast, Christian Lennartz, Thomas Schaefer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Stefan Metz, Peter Murer
  • Patent number: 11832508
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroluminescence device having high luminous efficiency (for example, external quantum efficiency) and high durability and causing little chromaticity shift after device deterioration. The present invention also relates to an organic electroluminescence device material comprising a substrate having thereon a pair of electrode and at least one organic layer between the electrodes, the organic layer containing a light emitting layer, wherein the light emitting layer contains a metal complex having a group represented by formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroo Takizawa, Saki Takada, Eiji Fukuzaki
  • Patent number: 11800787
    Abstract: The invention relates to metal complexes and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescence devices, containing said metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Nils Koenen, Anna Hayer, Holger Heil, Philipp Stoessel
  • Patent number: 11800798
    Abstract: A charge transporting material which allows for a low driving voltage and is superior in luminous efficiency and durability is provided. The charge transporting material comprising a compound represented by any one of the general formula (1-1) to (1-3) wherein R111 to R114, R121 to R125 and R131 to R135, L111 to L113, and L121 to L123 are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventor: Kousuke Watanabe
  • Patent number: 11765967
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light-emitting devices comprising (a) an anode, (i) a cathode, and (e) an emitting layer between the anode and cathode, comprising 2 to 40% by weight of a triplet emitter X having a difference of the singlet energy (ES1(X)) and the triplet energy (ET1(X)) of less than or equal to 0.4 eV [?(ES1(X))?(ET1(X))?0.4 eV], 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of a fluorescent emitter Y and 55 to 97.95% by weight of a host compound(s), wherein the amount of the triplet emitter X, the fluorescent emitter Y and the host compound(s) adds up to a total of 100% by weight and the singlet energy of the triplet emitter X (ES1(X)) is greater than the singlet energy of the fluorescent emitter Y (ES1(Y)) [(ES1(X))>ES1(Y)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Christian Lennartz, Stefan Metz, Korinna Dormann, Gerhard Wagenblast, Ute Heinemeyer, Hannah Mangold, Minlu Zhang, Thomas Holcombe
  • Patent number: 11744144
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a luminescent compound represented by the following formula (in which R1 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, a fluorine atom, a cyano group, an amino group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a thio group, or a silyl group, and 8 to 13 groups out of R1 to R14 each represent a hydrogen atom or a deuterium atom) in a light emitting layer has high durability and excellent chromaticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Toru Watanabe, Yuki Hirai, Tianhua Ouyang, Koji Takaku, Wataru Sotoyama, Tetsu Kitamura, Yasunori Yonekuta
  • Patent number: 11744152
    Abstract: A compound of the general formula a process for the production of the compound and its use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. Improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices are provided when the compound of formula I is used as host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Ute Heinemeyer, Nicolle Langer, Heinz Wolleb, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Soichi Watanabe, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Annemarie Wolleb, Kristina Bardon
  • Patent number: 11706978
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light emitting elements, comprising thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters and/or hosts of formula which have a sufficiently small energy gap between S1 and T1 (?EST) to enable up-conversion of the triplet exciton from T1 to S1. The organic light emitting elements show high electroluminescent efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Junichi Tanabe, Christian Lennartz
  • Patent number: 11700769
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one kind of compound represented by the following general formula is contained in any layer of the at least one organic layer, is an organic electroluminescent element, in which the generation of dark spots during driving is inhibited:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ise, Saki Takada
  • Patent number: 11692131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heteroleptic carbene complexes comprising at least two different carbene ligands, to a process for preparing the heteroleptic carbene complexes, to the use of the heteroleptic carbene complexes in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one inventive heteroleptic carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Evelyn Fuchs, Martina Egen, Klaus Kahle, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Simon Nord, Wolfgang Kowalsky, Christian Schildknecht, Hans-Hermann Johannes
  • Patent number: 11631825
    Abstract: An iridium complex which has a phenylpyridine bidentate ligand containing a group represented by the following general formula (A): wherein X represents a cyano group or a halogenated alkyl group; L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group; R represents a substituent; n represents an integer of 0 to 4; * represents a binding site to a phenylpyridine bidentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Kousuke Watanabe, Yuichirou Itai
  • Patent number: 11605790
    Abstract: An organic electronic device, preferably an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), comprising at least one metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands; a light-emitting layer comprising said metal-carbene complex as emitter material, preferably in combination with at least one host material; the use of said metal-carbene complex in an OLED; an apparatus selected from the group consisting of stationary visual display units, mobile visual display units, illumination units, units in items of clothing, units in handbags, units in accessories, units in furniture and units in wallpaper comprising said organic electronic device, preferably said OLED, or said light-emitting layer; the metal-carbene complex comprising one, two or three specific bidentate diazabenzimidazole carbene ligands mentioned above and a process for the preparation of said metal-carbene complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Peter Murer, Korinna Dormann, Flavio Luiz Benedito, Glauco Battagliarin, Stefan Metz, Ute Heinemeyer, Christian Lennartz, Gerhard Wagenblast, Soichi Watanabe, Thomas Geßner
  • Patent number: 11563178
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to organic electroluminescent elements, compounds for use in the elements, and devices using the elements, which include a compound represented by the following General Formula (1): where R1 to R3 and R6 to R8 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, which may be a deuterium atom, or a substituent with a Hammett substituent constant ?p value of ?0.15 or more, R5, R9 and R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, L1 represents a divalent linking group, DG1 represents a donor group, and n1 represents 1 or 2, and where R1 to R3, R5 to R10, L1, and DG1 are not bound to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: UDC IRELAND LIMITED
    Inventors: Koji Takaku, Yasunori Yonekuta, Wataru Sotoyama, Katsuyuki Youfu, Yuki Hirai, Tetsu Kitamura, Toru Watanabe, Tianhua Ouyang