Patents by Inventor Akinobu Iwamoto

Akinobu Iwamoto 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).

  • Publication number: 20170069694
    Abstract: An organic EL display panel including: a pair of first banks, second banks, and functional layers. The first banks have a greater length in a first direction than in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and have a gap therebetween. The second banks span the gap and are disposed at intervals along the first direction. The functional layers are disposed within respective ones of recesses defined by the first banks and the second banks and each correspond to at least a portion of an organic EL element. Each of the second banks has a groove at an upper surface thereof. The groove connects recesses adjacent to each other with the second bank therebetween and has a width, along the second direction, smaller than a width of the adjacent recesses along the second direction and within an inclusive range from 2 ?m to 6 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki AJIKI, Akinobu IWAMOTO, Atsushi TSUNO, Syouzou NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20150249232
    Abstract: A method including: forming a thin-film transistor array device that constitutes a pixel circuit; forming light-emitting layers; and after forming a light-emitter by forming the light-emitting layers, sealing the light-emitter entirely. The forming of the light-emitting layers includes: preparing transfer substrates, each transfer substrate having a supporting substrate on which a transfer layer including at least one of red, green, and blue light-emitting materials is formed; and transferring the corresponding transfer layer onto a transfer-target substrate of an EL display device by using the corresponding transfer substrate, and the forming of the light-emitting layers, the sealing, and the forming of the transfer layer of each transfer substrate are performed within an isolation atmosphere for preventing exposure to the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yoichi Shintani, Ryuichi Murai, Akinobu Iwamoto
  • Publication number: 20150221870
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an EL display device, the EL display device including: a light-emitter emitting light of at least red, green, and blue colors; and a thin-film transistor array device controlling light-emission of the light-emitter, the light-emitter including at least red, green, and blue light-emitting layers arranged within regions partitioned by banks, and being sealed with a sealing layer, the method including: preparing at least three types of transfer substrates corresponding to red, green, and blue colors, each transfer substrate having a supporting substrate on which a transfer layer including at least red, green, or blue light-emitting material is formed by an inkjet method; and when forming the light-emitting layers, repeatedly performing a transfer process that includes transferring the transfer layer onto a transfer-target substrate of the EL display device by using the transfer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Applicant: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Yoichi Shintani, Ryuichi Murai, Toshiyuki Akiyama, Akinobu Iwamoto