Patents Examined by Dawn L. Garrett
  • Patent number: 8288013
    Abstract: A material for an organic electroluminescence device including an indenofluorenedione derivative shown by the following formula (I): wherein X1 and X2, which may be the same or different, are any of specific divalent groups; R1 to R10, which may be the same or different, are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heterocycle, a halogen atom, a fluoroalkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group or a cyano group; and R3 to R6 or R7 to R10 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hironobu Morishita
  • Patent number: 8283054
    Abstract: A white-light-emitting tandem OLED device having spaced anode and cathode including: first and second light-emitting units disposed between the anode and cathode; an intermediate connector including an n-type layer and a p-type layer disposed between the first and second light-emitting units; and a fluoranthene-containing electron-transporting layer adjacent to the n-type layer of the intermediate connector and including at least 25% of a 7,10-diaryl-substituted fluoranthene compound having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey P. Spindler, Tukaram K. Hatwar, William J. Begley
  • Patent number: 8283053
    Abstract: To provide a high-performance organic light emitting device and a novel compound possessed by the device. Provided are a novel fluoranthene derivative and an organic light emitting compound having the derivative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masashi Hashimoto, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Takao Takiguchi, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8277957
    Abstract: A quinoxaline derivative represented by Formula (I) or (II) is provided. In Formula (I) or (II), R1 and R2 are, independently, hydrogen, halogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, aryl or heteroaryl, for example phenyl, furyl, thienyl, pyridyl, pyrimidyl, benzothiazolyl or benzoimidazolyl. An organic light-emitting diode including the quinoxaline derivative is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Heh-Lung Huang, Teng-Chih Chao, Hao-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8277956
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting diode including: a first electrode; a second electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a luminous efficiency improvement layer disposed on a surface of the first electrode facing away from the organic layer or a surface of the second electrode facing away from the organic layer, wherein the luminous efficiency improvement layer includes a porphyrazin derivative, a phthalocyanine derivative, a naphthalocyanine derivative, or a combination of at least two compounds of the foregoing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seung-Gak Yang, Hee-Yeon Kim, Jae-Yong Lee, Jong Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8268459
    Abstract: A compound having the following structure as at least a part thereof: wherein FA and FA? are independently a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon aromatic ring or hetero atom-containing aromatic ring, and at least one of FA and FA? is the hetero atom-containing aromatic ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Ito, Masahiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 8263238
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a compound represented by Formula 2B: wherein Ph1 and Ph2 are independently optionally substituted 1,4-interphenylene or optionally substituted 1,3-interphenylene, y may be 0 or 1, and z may be 0 or 1. In some embodiments, R9 and R10 are independently H, C1-3 alkyl, or C1-3 perfluoroalkyl. In some embodiments, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, R18, R19, R20, R21, and R22 are independently selected from the group consisting of H, C1-12 alkyl, C1-6F1-13 fluoroalkyl, and optionally substituted phenyl. Other embodiments provide an organic light-emitting diode device comprising a compound of Formula 2B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: David T. Sisk, Sheng Li, Amane Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 8257836
    Abstract: This invention relates to electroluminescent 4,9-di-substituted pyrenes that are useful in electroluminescent applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a pyrene composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Patent number: 8241764
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic light-emitting diode which has a light-emitting layer C which comprises at least one hole-conducting material CA and at least one phosphorescence emitter CB, to mixtures comprising at least one carbene complex in combination with at least one hole-conducting material or in combination with at least one phosphorescence emitter, and to the use of mixtures comprising at least one hole-conducting material and at least one phosphorescence emitter as a light-emitting layer in OLEDs for prolonging the lifetime of the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Schildknecht, Evelyn Fuchs, Nicolle Langer, Klaus Kahle, Christian Lennartz, Oliver Molt, Gerhard Wagenblast, Jens Rudolph
  • Patent number: 8237157
    Abstract: An organic device including at least two electrodes; at least one organic active layer, wherein the organic active layer is disposed in between two electrodes; and an electrode modification layer, wherein the electrode modification layer is disposed in between two electrodes and in contact with one of the electrodes; and the electrode modification layer includes a fluorocarbon compound selected from the materials having a chemical structure of (CxFy)n, wherein the “x”, “y”, and “n” are integers, and wherein 1<x?70, 1<y?50, and n?1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Global OLED Technology LLC
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Myron W. Culver, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 8227094
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device for emitting blue light, which has high luminous efficiency and good drive durability. This organic electroluminescent device for emitting blue light includes an anode 2, a cathode 6, and a layer which contains an organic compound interposed between the anode 2 and the cathode 6, the layer which contains an organic compound including at least a light-emitting layer 4, wherein the light-emitting layer 4 contains a bipolar host having a hole mobility and an electron mobility of 10?4 cm2/Vs or greater, a light-emitting dopant and a carrier trapping dopant, and the light-emitting dopant energy gap EgB, the bipolar host energy gap Egh, and the carrier trapping dopant energy gap Egd are such that Egd>Egh>EgB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Masataka Yashima, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8227095
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compound represented by the following Formula 1: The compound exhibits improved solubility and thermal stability in an organic light emitting device. An organic light emitting device including the compound, improves the driving voltage, the emission efficiency, and the color purity of an organic light emitting display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Myeong-Suk Kim, Byoung-Ki Choi, Dong-woo Shin, O-Hyun Kwon, Haa-Jin Yang, Bong-Jin Moon, Myoung-Soo Ham
  • Patent number: 8221907
    Abstract: A chrysene derivative shown by the following formula: wherein R1 to R10 and R21 to R25 are independently a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 ring carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkylsilyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted arylsilyl group having 8 to 30 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 ring carbon atoms, provided that at least one of R21 to R25 is a substituted or unsubstituted fused aromatic ring group having 10 to 20 ring carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted fluorenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Masakazu Funahashi, Tetsuya Inoue, Yukitoshi Jinde, Yuichiro Kawamura, Mitsunori Ito, Yoriyuki Takashima, Toshinari Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 8221904
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a material that has a high excitation energy, in particular, a high triplet excitation energy. Furthermore, another object of the present invention is to provide a material than can be easily synthesized and that has low crystallinity. In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting element that has high luminous efficacy and high reliability by application of this material to the light-emitting element. An oxadiazole derivative represented by the General Formula (G1) given below is synthesized and applied to a light-emitting element. (R1 to R7 each represent either hydrogen or an alkyl group with from 1 to 4 carbon atoms).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Nomura, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 8206842
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device including a cathode, an anode, and having therebetween a light-emitting layer including a boron complex represented by Formula (I), wherein: X represents hydrogen or a substituent; V1 through V8 represent hydrogen or an independently selected substituent, provided that adjacent substituents cannot join together to form an aromatic ring group and provided at least one of V2 and V3 represents a substituent; L1 and L2 represent independently selected substituents; and an anthracene compound containing an anthracene nucleus substituted in the 9- and 10-positions with independently selected aryl groups containing from 6 to 24 carbon atoms, and wherein the anthracene nucleus can be further substituted provided the anthracene nucleus does not contain an aromatic substituent in positions 1-8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Global Oled Technology LLC
    Inventor: J. Ramon Vargas
  • Patent number: 8192849
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display device that can reach the optimum light emitting efficiency of each pixel while operating at a low voltage. The organic light emitting display device includes a first pixel region emitting a first color, a second pixel region emitting a second color different from the first color, a first layer formed over the first and second pixel regions, and having at least one of a hole injection layer and a hole transport layer, and a second layer formed over the first and second pixel regions, and having hole injectivity higher than the first layer, wherein the first and second layers are sequentially deposited in the first pixel region, and the second and first layers are sequentially deposited in the second pixel region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Choon-Woo Lim, Kwan-Hee Lee, Sung-Jun Bae, Sang-Shin Lee, Ji-Hwan Yoon, Eun-Jung Lee
  • Patent number: 8178218
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent device material composed of an aromatic amine derivative having a specific structure in which amine moieties are linked to a chrysene moiety; and an organic electroluminescent device having a cathode, an anode, and one or more organic thin-film layers interposed between the cathode and the anode, the organic thin-layers including at least a light-emitting layer, wherein at least one of the organic thin-film layers contains the organic electroluminescent device material in the form of single component material or a mixture of a plurality of components. The organic electroluminescent device material and the organic electroluminescent device containing the material attains a long service life and can emit blue light of high color purity at high emission efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Funahashi
  • Patent number: 8173274
    Abstract: Organic compounds and organic electroluminescence devices employing the same are provided. The organic compound has a chemical structure represented as follows: wherein, R1 and R2 are independent and can be aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, hetero-cycloalkyl, or a cycloaliphatic group, or R1 and R2 link together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached to form a fused aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, hetero-cycloalkyl, or a cycloaliphatic group, and R3, R4, and R5 are independent and can be H, C1-8 alkyl, C1-8 alkoxy, C1-8 halo-alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, cycloalkyl, hetero-cycloalkyl, or a cycloaliphatic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Chi-Jen Lin, Heh-Lung Huang, Jin-Sheng Lin, Chien-Hong Cheng, Mei-Rurng Tseng
  • Patent number: 8168308
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide an organic compound having excellent characteristics as a material for an organic EL device having a high efficiency and a high durability, and to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency and a high durability by using the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hodogaya Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norimasa Yokoyama, Shuichi Hayashi, Shigeru Kusano
  • Patent number: 8142910
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode; a second electrode; an emissive layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a hole injecting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The hole injecting layer includes a three-component mixture of a metal fluoride, an insulator, and a hole injecting layer forming organic compound. The metal of the metal fluoride is a Group 1 or Group 2 element. The insulator is a compound made up of an element selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba and B, and an element selected from the group consisting of O, S, Cl, Se, Br and I. The hole injecting layer material provides excellent electrical characteristics, and is suitable for fluorescent and phosphorescent devices of all colors including red, green, blue, and white, and can be used in manufacturing an organic light-emitting device having high efficiency, low voltage, high brightness, and long life span.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Won-Jun Song, Yeun-Joo Sung, Keon-Ha Choi