Patents Examined by Gregory Clark
  • Patent number: 9564602
    Abstract: The invention provides an organic compound incorporating a specific structure into a pyridine skeleton or a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton and adapting the molecular weight to a specific range, a composition comprising the organic compound and a solvent, organic electroluminescent element comprising a layer that is formed by using the composition, and the uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichi Ishibashi, Hideki Gorohmaru, Wataru Shimizu, Tomomi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9553274
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to novel compounds containing carbazole and triazine with different number of phenyl units attached to its core. In particular, the disclosure relates to compositions and/or devices comprising these compounds as hosts for PHOLEDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Chuanjun Xia, Scott Joseph
  • Patent number: 9548459
    Abstract: Novel diarylamino phenyl carbazole compounds are provided. By appropriately selecting the nature of the diarylamino substituent and the substitution on the carbazole nitrogen, compounds with appropriate HOMO and LUMO energies can be obtained for use as materials in a secondary hole transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Kwong, Siu Tung Lam, Chi Hang Lee, Sze Kui Lam
  • Patent number: 9543527
    Abstract: The present invention provides a phosphorescent compound of one of following formulas:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hyun-Cheol Jeong
  • Patent number: 9540315
    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: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harue Osaka, Takahiro Ushikubo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Satoshi Seo, Tsunenori Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9537107
    Abstract: Provided are a light emitting device material which contains a compound having a carbazole skeleton of a specific structure and which makes it possible to achieve a light emitting device having both high luminance efficiency and durability; and a light emitting device using the light emitting device material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: TORAY INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Nagao, Shinichi Matsuki, Daisaku Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Tominaga
  • Patent number: 9537106
    Abstract: Donor-acceptor compounds with nitrogen containing polyaromatics as the acceptor with emission originated from the charge transfer (CT) state is disclosed. The donor-acceptor compound is provided that has the structure of Formula 1 shown below: wherein X1 to X12 is independently selected from the group consisting of C—R and N, wherein at least one of X1 to X12 is N, wherein each R is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, halide, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carbonyl, carboxylic acids, ester, nitrile, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof; and at least one of the R comprises a donor group with at least two electron-donating nitrogens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Raymond Kwong, Sui Tung Lam, Chi Hang Lee
  • Patent number: 9537111
    Abstract: A specific material for organic electroluminescence device having m-phenylene skeleton in its molecule realizes a highly heat-resistant and long lifetime organic electroluminescence device capable of driving at low voltage with high efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Nakano, Masaki Numata, Hideaki Nagashima
  • Patent number: 9527814
    Abstract: An aromatic amine derivative represented by the following formula (1), wherein L is a linking group, Z is a group represented by the following formula (2) and A1 and A2 are independently a monovalent group represented by the following formula (3):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kato, Mitsuru Eida, Masami Watanabe, Akinori Yomogita, Takushi Shiomi
  • Patent number: 9525138
    Abstract: In an aspect, an organic light-emitting diode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of forming a material layer are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Min Moon, Seong-Jong Kang, Tae-Jin Park
  • Patent number: 9525140
    Abstract: A problem of the invention is to provide an organic EL device having a high efficiency, a low driving voltage and a long life, by combining various materials for organic EL device, which are excellent in an injection or transportation performance of holes or electrons, and in stability and durability in a thin film, so as to enable the respective materials to effectively reveal their characteristics. The invention relates to an organic electroluminescent device including at least an anode electrode, a hole-injecting layer, a hole-transporting layer, an emitting layer, an electron-transporting layer and a cathode electrode in this order, in which the hole-injecting layer contains an arylamine compound having, in its molecule, a structure in which three or more triphenylamine structures are connected through a single bond or a hetero atom-free divalent group; and the hole-transporting layer contains an arylamine compound having two triphenylamine structures in its molecule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: HODOGAYA CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norimasa Yokoyama, Shigeru Kusano, Shuichi Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9525144
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode includes an emission layer, a hole migration transfer region and an electron migration region between the first and the second electrodes. The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) has low driving voltages, higher luminance, higher efficiency, higher color purity and longer lifetime than a conventional OLED.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-Young Lee, Yoon-Hyun Kwak, Bum-Woo Park, Jong-Won Choi, Wha-Il Choi, So-Yeon Kim, Ji-Youn Lee
  • Patent number: 9517977
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), to mixtures of the said compounds with emitter compounds, to the use of compounds of the formula (I) and the said mixtures in electronic devices, and to electronic devices containing one or more compounds of the formula (I) and/or mixtures of compounds of the formula (I) with emitter compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hubert Spreitzer, Jochen Schwaiger, Heinrich Becker
  • Patent number: 9520571
    Abstract: An organic photoelectric device may include a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the active layer including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2. An image sensor may include the organic photoelectric device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kwang Hee Lee, Kyu Sik Kim, Kyung Bae Park, Dong-Seok Leem, Seon-Jeong Lim
  • Patent number: 9512136
    Abstract: Novel organic compounds containing an imidazole core and electron donor and acceptor fragments are provided. By selection of the disclosed donor and acceptor groups, compounds exhibiting small singlet-triplet gaps are obtained. These compounds are useful in OLED devices as host materials or as delayed fluorescent emitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun Lin, Chuanjun Xia, Raymond Kwong
  • Patent number: 9515277
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescent element having a low driving voltage, high current efficiency and high voltage efficiency. An organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer comprises a mixed layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and/or a charge-transporting low molecular compound in a film containing an insolubilized polymer obtained by insolubilizing an insolubilizing polymer, and, adjacent to the mixed layer, a layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and a charge-transporting low molecular compound and not containing an insolubilized polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Tomohiro Abe, Yasuyuki Tsurutani, Hideki Sato
  • Patent number: 9515267
    Abstract: There is disclosed a compound having Formula I or Formula I?: In Formula I and Formula I?: Ar1 and Ar2 are the same or different and are aryl groups; R1 through R5 are independently the same or different at each occurrence and are D, F, alkyl groups, aryl groups, alkoxy groups, silyl groups, or crosslinkable groups; R6 is H, D, or halogen; a through e are independently an integer from 0 to 4; f is 1 or 2; g is 0, 1 or 2; h is 1 or 2; and n is an integer greater than 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: EI DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kyung-Ho Park, Nora Sabina Radu, Gary A Johansson, Adam Fennimore, William J Delaney, Daniel David Lecloux
  • Patent number: 9515265
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting device, including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the first electrode and includes a first compound and a first charge-generation material; a second hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the first hole transport layer and includes a second compound; a third hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the second hole transport layer and includes a third compound and a second charge-generation material; and a fourth hole transport layer that is disposed between the emission layer and the third hole transport layer and includes a fourth compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sam-Il Kho, Hyoung-Kun Kim, Mi-Kyung Kim, Hwan-Hee Cho
  • Patent number: 9502662
    Abstract: Disclosed are a compound for an organic optoelectronic device, an organic light emitting diode including the same, and a display device including the organic light emitting diode. The compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by the following Chemical Formula ad-1 provides an organic light emitting diode having life-span characteristics due to excellent electrochemical and thermal stability, and high luminous efficiency at a low driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: CHEIL INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sung-Hyun Jung, Dong-Wan Ryu, Han-Ill Lee, Young-Kyoung Jo, Mi-Young Chae, Dal-Ho Huh, Jin-Seok Hong
  • Patent number: 9502664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), a process for their production and their use in electronic devices, especially electroluminescent devices. When used as electron transport and/or host material for phosphorescent emitters in electroluminescent devices, the compounds of formula I may provide improved efficiency, stability, manufacturability, or spectral characteristics of electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Schaefer, Ute Heinemeyer, Nicolle Langer, Annemarie Wolleb, Christian Lennartz, Soichi Watanabe, Teresa Marina Figueira Duarte, Gerhard Wagenblast, Didier Bauer, Ingo Muenster, Christian Schildknecht, Heinz Wolleb