Patents Examined by Marie Yamnitzky
  • Patent number: 6962755
    Abstract: A light emitting element comprising at least a light emitting layer containing a light emitting material and a host material and having a light emission maximum wavelength of 500 nm or less wherein the minimum excitation triplet energy level of the host material is higher than the minimum excitation triplet energy level of the light emitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Ise, Tatsuya Igarashi, Yousuke Miyashita, Hidetoshi Fujimura, Masayuki Mishima, Hisashi Okada, Qiu Xuepeng
  • Patent number: 6953628
    Abstract: In a luminescence device formed of one or plural layers of organic film between a cathode and an anode, at least one layer is a luminescence layer, and a luminescence molecule of a metal coordination compound having a basic structure represented by formula (1) MLmL?n and having a substituent on at least one of cyclic groups incorporated as a guest in a host material at a concentration of at least 8 wt. %, which is higher than a concentration at which a luminescence molecule of a similar structure but having no substituent exhibits a maximum luminescence efficiency to form the luminescence layer. As a result, a high-efficiency luminescence device is provided, which is less likely to cause concentration extinction even when a luminescence molecule is contained at a high concentration relative to the host material in the luminescence layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 6951693
    Abstract: Materials for organic electroluminescence devices represented by following general formula [1]: wherein A represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 22 to 60 carbon atoms, X1 to X4 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, X1 and X2 may be bonded to each other, X3 and X4 may be bonded to each other, Y1 to Y4 each independently represent an organic group represented by general formula [2], a to d each represent an integer of 0 to 2 and, when the arylene group represented by A has 26 or less carbon atoms, a+b+c+d>0 and the arylene group does not contain two or more anthracene nucleus; general formula [2] being: wherein R1 to R4 each independently represent hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, cyano group or form a triple bond by a linkage of R1 and R2 or R3 and R4, Z represents a substituted or unsu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chishio Hosokawa, Masakazu Funahashi, Hisayuki Kawamura, Hiromasa Arai, Hidetoshi Koga, Hidetsugu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 6951694
    Abstract: The present invention relates to organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), and more specifically to efficient OLEDs having electron blocking layers. The devices of the present invention comprise at least one electron blocking layer which functions to confine electrons to specific regions of the light emitting devices. The present invention also relates to materials for use as electron blockers that show increased stability when incorporated into an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: The University of Southern California
    Inventors: Mark E. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich, Xiaofan Ren, Arnold Tamayo, Peter I. Djurovich
  • Patent number: 6942931
    Abstract: A white electroluminescent polymer having a 3,3?-bicarbazyl group incorporated into a polymeric main chain of polyarylene, represented by the Formula 1: in which Ar is an aromatic group having 6 to 26 carbon atoms, or a heteroaromatic group having 4 to 14 carbon, in which the aromatic group may be substituted with alkyl group, alkoxy group or amine group, each having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; R is a hydrogen atom, linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, or an aromatic group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms, in which the aromatic group may be substituted with alkyl group, alkoxy group or amine group, each having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; and m and n may be the same or different, and satisfy the following relationships 0.1?m/(m+n)?0.9 and 0.1?n/(m+n)?0.9. The present inventive white electroluminescent polymer is capable of overcoming the limits of conventional polymer blending systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ji Hoon Lee, In Nam Kang
  • Patent number: 6939625
    Abstract: New organic light-emitting diodes and related electroluminescent devices and methods for fabrication, using siloxane self-assembly techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Nôrthwestern University
    Inventors: Tobin J. Marks, Qinglan Huang, Ji Cui, Jonathan Veinot
  • Patent number: 6939624
    Abstract: Emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are described that produce improved electroluminescence, particularly in the blue region of the visible spectrum. Organic light emitting devices employing such emissive phosphorescent organometallic compounds are also described. Also described is an organic light emitting layer including a host material having a lowest triplet excited state having a decay rate of less than about 1 per second; a guest material dispersed in the host material, the guest material having a lowest triplet excited state having a radiative decay rate of greater than about 1×105 or about 1×106 per second and wherein the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the host material is lower than the energy level of the lowest triplet excited state of the guest material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignees: Universal Display Corporation, The University of Southern California, The Trustees of Princeton University
    Inventors: Sergey Lamansky, Mark E. Thompson, Vadim Adamovich, Peter I. Djurovich, Chihaya Adachi, Marc A. Baldo, Stephen R. Forrest, Raymond Kwong
  • Patent number: 6936189
    Abstract: A cyclic tertiary amine compound represented by a formula (1) and an organic luminescent device are disclosed. Use of the cyclic tertiary amine compound as a hole transport material, a hole injection material or an organic electroluminescent material can provide organic EL devices having high luminous efficiency and a long service life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Chisso Corporation
    Inventors: Wang Guofang, Manabu Uchida, Hajime Yokoi, Takaharu Nakano, Kenji Furukawa
  • Patent number: 6933063
    Abstract: Provided are spirobifluorene compounds which can provide excellent processibility with improved solubility in organic solvents, an electroluminescence (EL) polymer obtained therefrom and an EL element having the same. The EL polymer comprising repeating units of the following formula: wherein R1 and R2 are identical or different and are independently a straight-chain or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 22 carbon atoms or an aryl group substituted by C1-C22 alkyl, and at least one of the R1 and R2 contains one or more atoms selected from the group consisting of O, N, S, Si and Ge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Jeong Ik Lee, Hyoyoung Lee, Jiyoung Oh, Hye Yong Chu, Lee-Mi Do, Seong Hyun Kim, Taehyoung Zyung
  • Patent number: 6929873
    Abstract: A luminescent device having a high luminescence efficiency and a high luminance is provided by using a rhenium coordination compounds the luminescent device comprising a Re complex compound provided between a pair of electrodes on a substrate, wherein the Re complex compound is expressed by the following general formula: ReCO]n wherein Re is rhenium, CO is a carbonyl group, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Koichi Suzuki, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Patent number: 6929869
    Abstract: Organic light emitting diode devices having a substrate bearing an organic layer sandwiched between electrode structures. The organic layer includes, in a single layer a hole transporter, an electron transporter and a light emitter where the electron transporter or the light emitter or the electron transporter and the light emitter include a material of general formula 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Qinetiq Limited
    Inventors: Emma L Wood, Ian C Sage
  • Patent number: 6924047
    Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to luminescent lanthanide compounds with imine ligands, and devices that are made with the lanthanide compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Nora Sabina Radu, Daniel David Lecloux, Norman Herron, Lucy M. Clarkson
  • Patent number: 6921589
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electroluminescent element formed by placing a luminescing substance between an anode and a cathode, such that when electrical energy is applied to the element, light is emitted having a peak wavelength of at least 580 nm. The luminescing substance comprises a fluorescent compound have a fluorescent maximum at about 540 nm or above and a compound having a pyrromethene structure (I) or metal complexes thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Toray Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Akira Kohama, Tsuyoshi Tominaga, Daisuke Kitazawa, Yoshio Himeshima
  • Patent number: 6921588
    Abstract: An organic EL device comprising an anode, a cathode, and one or more organic thin-film layers having a light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, the organic thin-film layers including, either singly or as a mixture, a perylene compound represented by a general formula [1] or a benzoperylene compound represented by a general formula [2].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Toguchi, Hitoshi Ishikawa, Hiroshi Tada, Yukiko Morioka, Atsushi Oda
  • Patent number: 6916554
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device is provided. The device has an anode, a cathode, and an emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The emissive layer further comprises an emissive material having the structure: M may be a metal having an atomic weight greater than 40. R3 may be a substituent having a Hammett value less than about ?0.17, between about ?0.15 and 0.05, or greater than about 0.07. R5 may be H or any substituent. A may be a 5 or 6 member heteroaryl ring system. “m” may be at least 1. “n” may be at least zero. (X-Y) may be an ancillary ligand. The emissive material itself is also provided. The emissive material may have improved stability, and may provide a saturated blue emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignees: The University of Southern California, Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Bin Ma, Robert W. Walters, David B. Knowles, Raymond Kwong, Yeh-Jiun Tung, Peter I. Djurovich, Mark E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6916555
    Abstract: In an organic luminescence device formed of one or plural layers of organic films between an anode and a cathode, at least one layer is any one of a luminescence layer, an electron injection layer and an electron-transporting layer and is formed of at least a spiro compound of formula (I-a) or (I-b) having a carbon atom or a silicon atom as a spiro atom and having four ring structures including at least one nitrogen atom-containing ring structure. By the use of the spiro compound of the formula (I-a) or (I-b), the resultant organic luminescence device produces a high-luminance fluorescent luminescence at a low voltage for a long period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 6911271
    Abstract: A device for producing electroluminescence comprising an organic light emitting device including an emissive layer comprising an organometallic compound comprised of a metal bound to a single carbon-coordination ligand, with the single carbon-coordination ligand being a mono-anionic carbon-coordination ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: The University of Southern California
    Inventors: Sergey Lamansky, Mark E. Thompson
  • Patent number: 6905786
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1, R2 and R3each represents an aryl group, a heterocyclic group or an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, provided that at least one of R1, R2 and R3 represents an aryl group or a heterocyclic group and at least one of the aryl group and heterocyclic group contains a group represented by formula (II), R1, R2 and R3 may be linked to each other to form a ring, wherein R4, R5 and R6, each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X1 represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, N—RX1 or CRX2RX3; RX1, RX2,RX3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; R4, R5, R6 and X1 may be linked to each other to form a ring; Y represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or N—RY1; and RY1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazumi Nii
  • Patent number: 6902832
    Abstract: A charge transporting material, a light emitting material and an organic electroluminescent device having high efficiency using a specified diazapentacene derivative represented by the following general formula (1): (in the general formula (1), R1 to R10 each represents independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group, a substituted or not-substituted amino group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, in which the substituted or not-substituted aryl group or heterocyclic group, when they are adjacent with each other, may be of a structure condensed to each other, X1 and X2 each represents independently an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom, and Y1 and Y2 each represents independently a substituted or not-substituted alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Chisso Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Uchida, Guofang Wang, Takaharu Nakano, Kenji Furukawa, Keiji Okada, Masatoshi Kozaki
  • Patent number: 6902830
    Abstract: Organic light emitting devices are described wherein the emissive layer comprises a host material containing an emissive molecule, which molecule is adapted to luminesce when a voltage is applied across the heterostructure, and the emissive molecule is selected from the group of phosphorescent organometallic complexes, including cyclometallated platinum, iridium and osmium complexes. The organic light emitting devices optionally contain an exciton blocking layer. Furthermore, improved electroluminescent efficiency in organic light emitting devices is obtained with an emitter layer comprising organometallic complexes of transition metals of formula L2MX, wherein L and X are distinct bidentate ligands. Compounds of this formula can be synthesized more facilely than in previous approaches and synthetic options allow insertion of fluorescent molecules into a phosphorescent complex, ligands to fine tune the color of emission, and ligands to trap carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignees: The Trustees of Princeton University, The University of Southern California
    Inventors: Mark E. Thompson, Peter Djurovic, Sergey Lamansky, Drew Murphy, Raymond Kwong, Feras Abdel-Razzaq, Stephen R. Forrest, Marc A. Baldo, Paul E. Burrows