Patents by Inventor Akio Ota
Akio Ota 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).
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Patent number: 8582060Abstract: A transverse electric field type liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates opposed with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. A plurality of sub-pixels having at least one curved portion in a display area are provided in a matrix on one side of the pair of substrates, and a pair of electrodes having at least one curved portion are formed in the plurality of sub-pixels. A light shield layer shielding a non-display area positioned on an outer peripheral side of the display area and between the plurality of sub-pixels is formed on the other side of the pair of substrates. The light shield layer of the non-display area is formed in a shape in which the outermost peripheral side of the display area is rectangular.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Japan Display West Inc.Inventor: Akio Ota
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Patent number: 8493543Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; and a liquid crystal which is interposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of scanning lines and signal lines arranged in a matrix shape, a plurality of switching elements arranged in the vicinities of intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines in a display area, a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to the switching elements, and a plurality of dummy pixels formed in a non-display area located in the periphery of the display area are formed on the first substrate close to a liquid crystal layer. Each of the plurality of dummy pixels is provided with a plurality of switching elements connected to the scanning line or the signal line, the plurality of switching elements are connected to each other in parallel, and one electrode of each of the switching elements is connected to a wiring to be supplied with a common potential.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20130155357Abstract: A transverse electric field type liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates opposed with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. A plurality of sub-pixels having at least one curved portion in a display area are provided in a matrix on one side of the pair of substrates, and a pair of electrodes having at least one curved portion are formed in the plurality of sub-pixels. A light shield layer shielding a non-display area positioned on an outer peripheral side of the display area and between the plurality of sub-pixels is formed on the other side of the pair of substrates. The light shield layer of the non-display area is formed in a shape in which the outermost peripheral side of the display area is rectangular.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Ota
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Patent number: 8314915Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates having a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. One of the substrates includes a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines which are arrayed on a display region so as to form a matrix shape, a common wiring formed on a peripheral area surrounding the display region, an interlayer film, pixel electrodes, an inter-electrode insulating film, and a common electrode that is electrically connected to the common wiring. On the surface of the common electrode, or between the common electrode and the inter-electrode insulating film, a conductive layer, which is composed of a material of a conductivity superior to a conductivity of the transparent conductive material composing the common electrode, is formed at locations overlapped with locations at which the plurality of scanning lines and the signal lines are formed.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2009Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20120008073Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: first and second substrates facing each other. The first substrate includes a plurality of scanning lines and signal lines intersecting each other, an upper electrode having a plurality of slit-shaped openings formed for each sub-pixel, and a lower electrode. The second substrate includes a light-shielding layer formed so as to overlap the scanning line and a signal line in a plan view, and a color filter layer formed in each of the sub-pixels defined by the scanning lines and the signal lines. A single pixel is formed by the plurality of sub-pixels including the color filter layers of different colors, respectively. The length of the slit-shaped opening in a longitudinal direction in the sub-pixel corresponding to at least one color is shorter than the length of the slit-shaped opening in the longitudinal direction in the sub-pixel corresponding to the other colors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20110050551Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes: substrates arranged opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. One of the substrates includes scanning and signal lines arranged in a matrix in a display area, a common wiring line along a peripheral edge portion of the display area, an interlayer resin film at least over the whole display area, and lower and upper electrodes arranged opposite to each other with an inter-electrode insulating film therebetween. The upper electrode includes slits in each pixel area sectioned by the scanning and signal lines. One of the upper and lower electrodes is formed over the whole display area and connected to the common wiring line and operates as a common electrode. In the display area, a common line is formed in parallel to the scanning line, the electrode operating as the common electrode is connected to the common line through a contact hole and the common line is connected to the common wiring line at the peripheral edge portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: March 3, 2011Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Akio Ota, Sachiko Watanabe
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Patent number: 7777821Abstract: A dual-display liquid crystal display device concurrently displays two images so that the two images can be identified from two different viewing directions by including sub-pixel areas each having therein a first storage capacitor section extending along a scanning line and a second storage capacitor section extending along a signal line, and further, makes the characteristics of brightness relative to a viewing angle associated with the two different viewing directions be line-symmetric with each other. The dual-display liquid crystal display device realizes an increased aperture by locating each storage capacitor section within a light-shielding area and by having rectangular display regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2009Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20100097538Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate which faces the first substrate; and a liquid crystal which is interposed between the first and second substrates. A plurality of scanning lines and signal lines arranged in a matrix shape, a plurality of switching elements arranged in the vicinities of intersections of the scanning lines and the signal lines in a display area, a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to the switching elements, and a plurality of dummy pixels formed in a non-display area located in the periphery of the display area are formed on the first substrate close to a liquid crystal layer. Each of the plurality of dummy pixels is provided with a plurality of switching elements connected to the scanning line or the signal line, the plurality of switching elements are connected to each other in parallel, and one electrode of each of the switching elements is connected to a wiring to be supplied with a common potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Akio OTA
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Patent number: 7701522Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display device 10 of the present invention includes: a plurality of signal lines Y1, . . . Ym and scanning lines X1, . . . Xn, Xn+1, Xn+2 which are arranged in a matrix state on a substrate; switching transistors 14 arranged near the intersection of each of the signal lines and the scanning lines; and pixel electrodes that are severally arranged in positions surrounded by the signal lines and the scanning lines and connected to the switching transistors, in which the pixel electrode is made up of a pixel electrode for display 12(25) that contributes to display, which is provided in an effective display region, and a dummy pixel electrode 27 that does not contribute to display, which is provided in a non-effective display region, and the dummy pixel electrode has a smaller area than the area of the pixel electrode for display and a plurality of the dummy pixel electrodes are parallelly provided for each signal line.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventors: Akio Ota, Satoshi Morita, Makoto Murakami, Osamu Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20100066646Abstract: A dual-display liquid crystal display device concurrently displays two images so that the two images can be identified from two different viewing directions by including sub-pixel areas each having therein a first storage capacitor section extending along a scanning line and a second storage capacitor section extending along a signal line, and further, makes the characteristics of brightness relative to a viewing angle associated with the two different viewing directions be line-symmetric with each other. The dual-display liquid crystal display device realizes an increased aperture by locating each storage capacitor section within a light-shielding area and by having rectangular display regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20090323005Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes a pair of substrates which are disposed so as to be opposite each other and have a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Akio OTA
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Patent number: 7619696Abstract: In an active matrix type liquid crystal display panel of the invention, an inner shorting line that is thicker than the scan lines and picture lines is disposed so as to surround the periphery of a display area included in the liquid crystal display panel; the scan lines are each connected to first electrostatic prevention circuits and bundled by a first shorting wire; the first shorting wire is connected to the inner shorting line via at least one among second electrostatic prevention circuits; a common potential line that is thicker than the inner shorting line is disposed around the outer periphery of the inner shorting line; and at least one connection is provided between the inner shorting line and common potential line, electrically connecting each to the other.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2007Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Epson Imaging Devices CorporationInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20080079859Abstract: In an active matrix type liquid crystal display panel 10A of the invention, an inner shorting line 20 that is thicker than the scan lines 11 and picture lines 12 is disposed so as to surround the periphery of a display area included in the liquid crystal display panel 10A; the scan lines 11 are each connected to first electrostatic prevention circuits 151 and bundled by a first shorting wire 161; the first shorting wire 161 is connected to the inner shorting line 20 via at least one among second electrostatic prevention circuits 181; a common potential line 17 that is thicker than the inner shorting line 20 is disposed around the outer periphery of the inner shorting line 20; and at least one connection 21 is provided between the inner shorting line 20 and common potential line 17, electrically connecting each to the other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: April 3, 2008Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATIONInventor: Akio Ota
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Publication number: 20060221288Abstract: An active matrix liquid crystal display device 10 of the present invention includes: a plurality of signal lines Y1, . . . Ym and scanning lines X1, . . . Xn, Xn+1, Xn+2 which are arranged in a matrix state on a substrate; switching transistors 14 arranged near the intersection of each of the signal lines and the scanning lines; and pixel electrodes that are severally arranged in positions surrounded by the signal lines and the scanning lines and connected to the switching transistors, in which the pixel electrode is made up of a pixel electrode for display 12(25) that contributes to display, which is provided in an effective display region, and a dummy pixel electrode 27 that does not contribute to display, which is provided in a non-effective display region, and the dummy pixel electrode has a smaller area than the area of the pixel electrode for display and a plurality of the dummy pixel electrodes are parallelly provided for each signal line.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2006Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: SANYO EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORP.Inventors: Akio Ota, Satoshi Morita, Makoto Murakami, Osamu Kobayashi
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Patent number: 5228797Abstract: The present invention aims to minimize the axial and radial clearance or play suppress a radial inertial movement in the pin joint connection portions of a machine operating link device. To achieve this, the present invention provides a joint connecting pin device for machine operating links adapted to change and retain the posture of the working unit of a hydraulic excavator or the like, the device comprising: thrust distributing and forming portions which are provided between end surfaces of pin boss portions on links on one side connected to a pin and opposed end surfaces of a link on the other side and which are adapted to distribute a thrust in the axial and radial directions; rigid-elastic annular members which are held by the thrust distributing and forming portions; and an axial movement device which is provided on at least one of the pin boss sections and which is adapted to impart a radial resilient force to the rigid-elastic annular members.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 1991Date of Patent: July 20, 1993Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Akio Ota, Sinji Takeuchi
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Patent number: 4493381Abstract: A turbodrill of the type having an annular floating piston between a tubular housing and a bit drive shaft for bounding the top of a lubricant chamber and the bottom of a drilling fluid chamber. The lubricant chamber contains oil for lubricating a bearing supporting the drive shaft in the adjacency of its bottom end. The drilling fluid chamber receives a fraction of drilling fluid (i.e. mud) from a turbine located higher in the housing. For making the mud pressure in the drilling fluid chamber approximately equal to the mud pressure in the drill hole (annulus) around the turbodrill, a seal is provided which restricts the influx of the mud from turbine to drilling fluid chamber. Further a passageway is formed through the housing for placing the drilling fluid chamber in constant fluid communication with the annulus.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 1983Date of Patent: January 15, 1985Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu SeisakushoInventors: Masauemon Kajikawa, Akio Ota