Patents by Inventor Akira Tsuboyama

Akira Tsuboyama 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: 7834135
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device capable of emitting light with high efficiency and of being formed by a coating process, the present invention provides a light emitting device including as a light emitting material a polymeric mixed-metal complex containing two or more kinds of metals selected from Cu, Ag, and Au.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Yoichi Sasaki, Kiyoshi Tsuge, Seiko Shibata, Motoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 7808175
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting material of which a light emitting device having high luminous efficiency and high stability and capable of being provided at a low cost can be formed. A light emitting material includes the following partial structural formula (1): wherein at least one of R1 to R10 represents a substituent except a hydrogen atom, a total number of benzene ring structures in R1 to R10 is 3 or more, and R1 to R10 include a trifluoromethyl group, or a linear, branched, or cyclic alkyl or alkoxyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms a hydrogen atom of which may be substituted by a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Koichi Suzuki, Taiki Watanabe, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 7790299
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same central metal, and the second dopant transmitting energy to the first dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Patent number: 7749617
    Abstract: The present invention provides a novel organic compound capable of simultaneously emitting fluorescence and phosphorescence. The organic compound according to the present invention is an organic compound consisting of only elemental hydrogen and at least two kinds of elements selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to the thirteenth group to the seventeenth group of the second period to the fifth period of the periodic table, and being capable of simultaneously emitting fluorescence and phosphorescence at a temperature of from ?30° C. or more and 100° C. or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Kazunori Ueno, Akira Tsuboyama, Seiichi Yogi
  • Patent number: 7736758
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same ligand skeletal structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20100090238
    Abstract: A high-efficiency, white organic electroluminescent device has such a structure that its emission layer is obtained by laminating sub-emission layers of red, green, and blue, respectively. The green sub-emission layer contacting a hole transport layer has a delayed fluorescent material, and the red sub-emission layer has a phosphorescent light emitting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshifumi Mori, Koichi Suzuki, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoru Shiobara, Kenichi Ikari
  • Publication number: 20100090209
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display apparatus which can be driven at a low voltage and in which a red-light-emitting device uses a phosphorescent material, a green-light-emitting device uses a delayed fluorescent material, and the same material is used in the hole transport layers of the respective devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikari, Akira Tsuboyama, Koichi Suzuki, Satoru Shiobara, Toshifumi Mori
  • Publication number: 20100090593
    Abstract: Provided is an organic EL display apparatus including an organic EL device having a delayed fluorescence material which has good internal quantum efficiency and an organic EL device having a phosphorescent material. A soaking unit is provided in a plane in which the organic EL devices are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshifumi Mori, Koichi Suzuki, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoru Shiobara, Kenichi Ikari
  • Publication number: 20100090592
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display apparatus having organic electroluminescent devices each of which is excellent in color reproducibility and has high emission efficiency in which green organic electroluminescent devices each have a delayed fluorescent material and a microcavity, and the hole transport layer of each of the devices has the same thickness as that of the hole transport layer of each of blue organic electroluminescent devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Toshifumi Mori, Kenichi Ikari, Koichi Suzuki, Akira Tsuboyama
  • Patent number: 7691493
    Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality ligands is introduced into a main chain or a side chain is provided. In the case where the polymeric compound is the main chain-type polymeric compound, the metal complex segment has at least one ligand constituting a polymer main chain of the polymeric compound and having a carbon atom and oxygen atom bonded to a metal atom. On the other hand, in the case where the polymeric compound is the side chain-type polymeric compound, a polymer main chain thereof has a conjugated structure, preferably a conjugated double bond. A ligand for the polymeric compound includes a chain or cyclic ligand, of which a bidentate ligand having an organic cyclic structure is preferred, and the ligand has at least one carbon atom or oxygen atom and is bonded to a center metal atom, preferably iridium, via the carbon atom or oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa
  • Patent number: 7687155
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound having the following structure: wherein M? is Ir or Rh, m? is 2, and are identical to each other and are represented by a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl isoquinoline ligand. A luminescence device and a display apparatus using this metal coordination compound are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 7629062
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting element comprising at least one light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes formed on a substrate and at least two or more light emission center materials included in the light-emitting layer, and that the at least one or more light emission center materials include a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and an excitation lifetime of the light emission center material that emits light having a shortest wavelength is shorter than an excitation lifetime of the other light emission center material, whereby a high-efficiency organic light-emitting element without decreasing a color purity of white light emission can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Moriyama, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Patent number: 7597955
    Abstract: There are provided an organic light-emitting device having a light output of a high emission efficiency and a high luminance and having high durability and a novel organic compound that enables the device to be attained. An organic compound of a long fluorescence lifetime represented by an organic compound having, in a molecule, at least one partial structure comprising an unsubstituted or substituted indole ring and at least one partial structure comprising an unsubstituted or substituted carbazole ring is used in an organic light-emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Takiguchi, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu
  • Publication number: 20090230860
    Abstract: There is provided a polymer compound in which a metal complex is bonded to a main chain of a polymer via a substituent for imparting a given distance therebetween. Specifically, a polymer compound is provided which has a partial structure represented by the general formula (1): It is thus rendered possible to improve the yield of synthesis of the polymer compound and to introduce a desired metal complex in a predetermined amount into the polymer compound. It is thus made possible to realize a white-light emitting material or a light emission of a desired color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: JUN KAMATANI, SHINJIRO OKADA, AKIRA TSUBOYAMA, TAKAO TAKIGUCHI, SATOSHI IGAWA
  • Publication number: 20090184634
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound represented by any one of formulas (1)-(5). An organic luminescence device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer, which contains the metal coordination compound, disposed between the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 7544426
    Abstract: A luminescence device having a layer containing a metal coordination compound which has a partial structure. MLm of formula (2) below and is preferably entirely represented by formula (3) below: MLmL?n??(3) wherein M denotes a metal atom of Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; represent mutually different bidentate ligands; m is 1 or 2 or 3; n is 0 or 1 or 2 with the proviso that m+n=2 or 3; the partial structure MLm is represented by formula (2) below (wherein B is an isoquinolyl group bonded to the metal M with its N and including a position-1 carbon atom bonded to a cyclic group A which includes the C bonded to the metal M), and the partial structure ML?n is represented by formula (4), (5) or (6) shown below. There is provided a luminescence device capable of high-efficiency luminescence and long-term high luminance and adapted to red luminescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 7534506
    Abstract: A luminescence device comprising a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer disposed between the electrodes. The layer contains a metal coordination compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein M is Ir, Rh or Pd;n is 2or 3; and X1 to X8 is, independently, a hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of a halogen atom; a nitro group; a trifluoromethyl group; a trialkylsilyl group having three linear or branched alkyl groups each independently having 1-8 carbon atoms; and a linear or branched alkyl group having 2-20 carbon atoms capable of including one or at least two non-neighboring methylene groups which can be replaced with —O—,—S—,—C(O)—,—C(O)—O—,—O—C(O)—, —CH?CH—or —C?C—and capable of including a hydrogen atom which can be replaced with a fluorine atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takao Takiguchi, Hidemasa Mizutani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 7527879
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound having a structure according to formula (1) or (3), wherein ligand L is a phenylisoquinoline ligand and ligand L2 is different from L: A luminescence device and a display apparatus using this metal coordination compound are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Publication number: 20090091589
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting element comprising at least one light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes formed on a substrate and at least two or more light emission center materials included in the light-emitting layer, and that the at least one or more light emission center materials include a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and an excitation lifetime of the light emission center material that emits light having a shortest wavelength is shorter than an excitation lifetime of the other light emission center material, whereby a high-efficiency organic light-emitting element without decreasing a color purity of white light emission can be obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: TAKASHI MORIYAMA, SHINJIRO OKADA, AKIRA TSUBOYAMA, TAKAO TAKIGUCHI, SEISHI MIURA, SATOSHI IGAWA, JUN KAMATANI, HIRONOBU IWAWAKI
  • Patent number: 7510783
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting element comprising at least one light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes formed on a substrate and at least two or more light emission center materials included in the light-emitting layer, and that the at least one or more light emission center materials include a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and an excitation lifetime of the light emission center material that emits light having a shortest wavelength is shorter than an excitation lifetime of the other light emission center material, whereby a high-efficiency organic light-emitting element without decreasing a color purity of white light emission can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Moriyama, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki