Patents by Inventor Akifumi Nakamura

Akifumi Nakamura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8558452
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device provided with a lower electrode formed on a substrate, a light emitting unit having at least an organic light emitting layer and formed on the lower electrode, and a light transmissive upper electrode formed on the light emitting unit, wherein a connection layer for supplying a charge into the light emitting unit and a charge transport layer having charge transporting properties of a reverse conducting type against a charge to be injected from the upper electrode are stacked in this order from a side of the light emitting unit between the light emitting unit and the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Akifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20110127505
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having high light emitting efficiency and improved reliability is provided. The organic electroluminescence device includes: an anode containing at least aluminum (Al); a cathode; and an organic layer between the anode and the cathode, the organic layer including a light emitting layer. The organic layer has a hole injection layer composed of a sulfonic acid derivative between the anode and the light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akifumi Nakamura, Yasuharu Ujiie, Yasunori Kijima
  • Publication number: 20110121346
    Abstract: Provided is a light-emitting element in the structure and configuration of causing no possibility of a short circuit between first and second electrodes even if there is any foreign substance or a protrusion on the first electrode. Such a light-emitting element is configured to include, in order, a first electrode 21, an organic layer 23 including a light-emitting layer made of an organic light-emitting material, a semi-transmissive/reflective film 40, a resistance layer 50, and a second electrode 22. The first electrode 21 reflects a light coming from the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode 22 passes through a light coming from the semi-transmissive/reflective film 40 after passing therethrough. The semi-transmissive/reflective film on the organic layer 23 has an average film thickness of 1 nm to 6 nm both inclusive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiro Yamada, Eisuke Negishi, Hirofumi Nakamura, Akifumi Nakamura, Tadahiko Yoshinaga
  • Publication number: 20090039769
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device for emitting red light is disclosed, including: an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer including a light emitting layer provided between the anode and the cathode, wherein the light-emitting layer contains a red light-emitting guest material and a host material composed of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having a skeleton with a 4 to 7 membered ring, and a photosensitizing layer containing a light-emitting guest material which generates blue light is provided adjacent to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Matsunami, Masayuki Kurotaki, Toshihiro Fukuda, Yasunori Kijima, Akifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080233387
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device is provided with an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer having at least a light-emitting layer and held between the anode and the cathode. A layer with a nitrogen-containing heterocycle derivative therein is arranged between the anode and the light-emitting layer. The layer with the nitrogen-containing heterocycle derivative contained therein has a thickness greater than a hole supply layer arranged between the anode and the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emiko Kambe, Akifumi Nakamura, Yasunori Kijima, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20080164809
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device for emitting red light is disclosed. The device includes: an anode; a cathode; and an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, wherein the light-emitting layer contains a red light-emitting guest material and a host material composed of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon compound having a skeleton with 4 to 7 membered rings, and a photosensitizing layer containing a light-emitting guest material generating green light is provided adjacent to the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Matsunami, Masayuki Kurotaki, Toshihiro Fukuda, Yasunori Kijima, Akifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20080014464
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including: an anode, a cathode, an emitting layer formed of an organic compound and interposed between the cathode and the anode, and two or more layers provided in a hole-injecting/hole-transporting region between the anode and the emitting layer; of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing a compound represented by the formula (1); and of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is interposed between the anode and the layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing an amine derivative represented by the formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Applicants: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kawamura, Emiko Kambe, Akifumi Nakamura, Yasunori Kijima, Tadahiko Yoshinaga, Shigeyuki Matsunami
  • Patent number: 7282854
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device of the present invention, when an anode, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, and a cathode are sequentially formed on a substrate to manufacture an organic electroluminescence device, as the cathode, an alkali metal or a compound thereof is deposited and then a low electric resistance metal is deposited. The alkali metal and compound thereof is caused to diffuse in the low electric resistance metal and the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited
    Inventor: Akifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20070182320
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device provided with a lower electrode formed on a substrate, a light emitting unit having at least an organic light emitting layer and formed on the lower electrode, and a light transmissive upper electrode formed on the light emitting unit, wherein a connection layer for supplying a charge into the light emitting unit and a charge transport layer having charge transporting properties of a reverse conducting type against a charge to be injected from the upper electrode are stacked in this order from a side of the light emitting unit between the light emitting unit and the upper electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Inventor: Akifumi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20040212297
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence device of the present invention, when an anode, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer, and a cathode are sequentially formed on a substrate to manufacture an organic electroluminescence device, as the cathode, an alkali metal or a compound thereof is deposited and then a low electric resistance metal is deposited. The alkali metal and compound thereof is caused to diffuse in the low electric resistance metal and the organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Inventor: Akifumi Nakamura