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).

  • Publication number: 20090072721
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting device that emits phosphorescence with high efficiency. The light-emitting device of the present invention includes a host containing two kinds of dopants, wherein a dopant having a longer maximum-emission wavelength is doped in a low concentration and has a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kengo Kishino, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20080299414
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device which has a high efficiency and high durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Watanabe, Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Jun Kamatani
  • Patent number: 7459559
    Abstract: There are provided a light-emitting device which emits light stably with high efficiency, and a novel metal complex for realizing the light-emitting device. The novel metal complex has terdentate coordination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7446471
    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 a dopant for improving the dispersability thereof. As the dopant, there are employed a light emitting compound and a non-light emitting compound or a current enhancing material. In case of employing the light emitting compound, the composition corresponds to a case of utilizing plural light emitting materials, and, in such case, the light emission wavelengths are preferably mutually closer. Also, evaporation of the light emitting material and the dopant in the same evaporation boat makes it possible to reduce evaporation temperature, thereby improving the dispersability of the light emitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    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: 20080265761
    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: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20080265763
    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. As the first dopant, there is employed a phosphorescent dopant. The amount of the second dopant is greater than the amount of the first dopant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20080265762
    Abstract: In order to improve the light emission efficiency and the light emission life time of an organic electroluminescent device, the invention provides a method for improving the dispersibility of a light emitting material in the light emitting layer. The light emitting device comprises electrodes consisting of an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the electrodes, wherein the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and a dopant for improving the dispersibility thereof. As the dopant, there are employed a light emitting compound and a non-light emitting compound or a current enhancing material. In case of employing the light emitting compound, the composition corresponds to a case of utilizing plural light emitting materials, and, in such case, the light emission wavelengths are preferably mutually closer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Patent number: 7413818
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting device obtained by using a specific copper coordination compound as a light-emitting material, which has a basic structure in which two copper ions are crosslinked in a ring form by one of atomic groups containing a halogen atom, a sulfur atom, and an nitrogen atom. The light-emitting device provides high luminescence efficiency and high stability at low cost by using an inexpensive copper coordination compound as a light-emitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori, Katsuaki Kuge
  • Patent number: 7388327
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a light-emitting device that emits phosphorescence with high efficiency. The light-emitting device of the present invention includes a host containing two kinds of dopants, wherein a dopant having a longer maximum-emission wavelength is doped in a low concentration and has a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kengo Kishino, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20080129192
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic light emitting device exhibiting optical output with high light emitting efficiency and high luminance at low applied voltages. The present invention provides an organic light emitting device including: a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode, at least one of which is transparent or semitransparent; and an organic layer interposed between the pair of electrodes and containing an organic compound, in which the organic layer containing the organic compound includes one or more organic radical compounds. The organic layer containing the organic radical compound is a hole injecting layer, a hole transporting layer, an electron injecting layer, an electron transporting layer, or a light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Watanabe, Kazunori Ueno, Koichi Suzuki, Akira Tsuboyama
  • Publication number: 20080100212
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device having high luminous efficiency and high stability. The light emitting device includes two electrodes and a light emitting layer interposed between the two electrodes, in which the light emitting layer contains luminous nanoparticles, and the luminous nanoparticles each have a particle diameter smaller than a thickness of the light emitting layer, and each include a metal coordination compound having a ligand formed of an organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Takayuki Teshima, Koichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7361414
    Abstract: There is provided a high light-emission-efficiency, highly stable, low-cost light emitting device that utilizes a copper complex as a light emitting material and comprises a pair of electrodes provided on a substrate, and an organic substance layer provided between the electrode and comprising a metal coordination compound having a partial structure represented by the general formula (1): wherein Cu represents a copper ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Kazunori Ueno, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Patent number: 7354662
    Abstract: An electroluminescence device having a layer containing a specific metal coordination compound is provided. The metal coordination compound is represented by formula (1) below: MLmL?n,??(1) wherein M is a metal atom of Ir, Pt, Rh or Pd; L and L? are mutually different bidentate ligands; m is 1, 2 or 3 and n is 0, 1 or 2 with the proviso that m+n is 2 or 3; a partial structure MLm is represented by formula (2) shown below and a partial structure ML?n is represented by formula (3) or (4) shown below: The metal coordination compound of the formula (1) is characterized by having at least one aromatic substituent for at least one of CyN1, CyN2, CyC1 and CyC2. The metal coordination compound having the aromatic substituent is effective in providing high-efficiency luminescence, long-term high luminance, and less deterioration by current passing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori
  • Publication number: 20080058498
    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: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Yoichi Sasaki, Kiyoshi Tsuge, Seiko Shibata, Motoshi Tamura
  • Publication number: 20080009627
    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: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Koichi Suzuki, Taiki Watanabe, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20070292717
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescence device using a novel phosphorescent metal complex compound and having high efficiency, high luminance, and high durability. The organic electroluminescence device includes a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, and one or more organic layers each containing an organic compound, the one or more organic layers being interposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein at least one of the one or more organic layers contain a phosphorescent metal complex compound having at least one ligand structure represented by the following general formula (1): where at least one of X, Y and Z represents an aromatic oligomer having 13 or more carbon atoms and bonded directly or via a linking group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiki Watanabe, Akira Tsuboyama, Satoru Shiobara, Koichi Suzuki, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20070278939
    Abstract: There are provided a light-emitting device which emits light stably with high efficiency, and a novel metal complex for realizing the light-emitting device. The novel metal complex has terdentate coordination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Kazunori Ueno, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20070257604
    Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality of 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: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa
  • Patent number: 7279233
    Abstract: There is provided a light-emitting material comprising a metal coordination compound having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1). The light-emitting material has high luminous efficiency and high stability and can be produced at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori
  • Publication number: 20070216294
    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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori