Patents by Inventor Ching W. Tang

Ching W. Tang 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: 20010051285
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device, including an anode and cathode and therebetween a hole transport layer; and an electron tranport layer disposed in an operative relationship with the hole transport layer; wherein the hole transport layer includes at least an aromatic hydrocarbon or fused hydrocarbon containing at least 20 carbon atoms and having an ionization potential greater than 5.0 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Inventors: JIANMIN SHI, CHING W. TANG
  • Publication number: 20010023029
    Abstract: An organic multilayer electroluminescent device including an anode and cathode, and comprising therebetween:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: September 20, 2001
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jianmin Shi, Shiying Zheng, Ching W. Tang
  • Publication number: 20010021478
    Abstract: An organic multilayer electroluminescent device including an anode and cathode, and comprising therebetween:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2001
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Inventors: Jianmin Shi, Shiying Zheng, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6278236
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent (EL) device having a layered structure, including an anode; an organic hole-transport layer in contact with the anode; an organic emitting layer having one surface thereof in contact with the hole-transport layer; an organic electron-transport layer in contact with a second surface of the emitting layer; an electron-injecting layer in contact with the electron-transport layer; and a cathode in contact with the electron-injecting layer, wherein the electron-injecting layer includes aluminum and at least one alkali halide or at least one alkaline earth halide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Joseph K. Madathil, Max G. Mason, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6172459
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device including a substrate; an anode disposed over the substrate; an organic light-emitting structure disposed over the anode; a cathode buffer layer disposed over the organic light-emitting structure and of a material selected to permit high energy deposition of a cathode; a cathode disposed over the cathode buffer layer; and an interfacial layer provided with an electron-injecting material between the organic light-emitting structure and the cathode buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang S. Hung, Ching W. Tang, Pranab K. Raychaudhuri
  • Patent number: 6140763
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device including a substrate, an anode disposed over the substrate, an organic light-emitting structure disposed over the anode, a cathode buffer layer disposed over the organic light-emitting structure and formed of a material selected to permit high energy deposition of a cathode, and a cathode disposed over the cathode buffer layer and being provided with an electron-injecting dopant which diffuses across the buffer layer to provide an interfacial electron-injecting layer at the interface between the organic light-emitting structure and the cathode buffer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang S. Hung, Joseph K. Madathil, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6128131
    Abstract: A flat-panel projection color display including a flat projection display screen having a width dimension and a height dimension defining a display screen area A, the display screen having a light transmissive support which has on one surface thereof a plurality of patterned fluorescent elements capable of emitting red, green, or blue color light and at least one laser scanner for producing a raster-scanned laser light beam and for projecting the beam onto the display screen as a display tile from a projection distance which is .ltoreq.0.5.sqroot.A. The display screen causes the laser light beam to illuminate selected fluorescent elements within the display tile on the screen, the laser light beam having a wavelength selected to cause the selected fluorescent elements to emit red, green, or blue color light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 6066357
    Abstract: Methods of making a full-color organic light-emitting display are disclosed. The methods include ink-jet printing of fluorescent dopants selected to produce red, green, or blue light emission from designated subpixels of the display. The dopants are printed sequentially from ink-jet printing compositions which permit printing of dopant layers over a light-emitting layer containing a host material selected to provide host light emission in a blue spectral region. The dopants are diffused from the dopant layer into the light-emitting layer by exposing the light-emitting layer and the dopant layers to vapor of a fluid or fluid mixture. When an ink-jet printing composition is formulated with a printing fluid having fluid vapors which promote dopant diffusion, the steps of ink-jet printing and diffusing of dopants can be combined to form a selectively doped light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ching W. Tang, Kee-Chuan Pan
  • Patent number: 6048573
    Abstract: A method of making an organic light-emitting device is disclosed in which a dopant layer is formed adjacent to a light-emitting layer containing a light-emitting host material. The dopant is diffused from the dopant layer into the light-emitting layer by exposing the light-emitting layer and the dopant layer to vapor of a fluid or fluid mixture. The method permits doping of a light-emitting layer with one dopant or with multiple dopants so as to modify the color and efficiency of light emitted from the light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ching W. Tang, Kee-Chuan Pan
  • Patent number: 6020078
    Abstract: An organic EL device, including an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic luminescent layer containing a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: X=S, or OR.sub.1, and R.sub.2 are individually alkyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, aryl or carbocyclic systems;R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are individually alkyl of from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or a branched or unbranched 5 or 6 member substituent ring connecting with R.sub.1, R.sub.2 respectively; andR.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are individually alkyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which are branched or unbranched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Chin H. Chen, Ching W. Tang, Jianmin Shi, Kevin P. Klubek
  • Patent number: 5937272
    Abstract: A method of forming high definition patterned organic layers in a full-color electroluminescent (EL) display array on a two-dimensional thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate is described. The substrate has subpixels with each subpixel having raised surface portions and one recessed surface portion which reveals a bottom electrode. Red, green, and blue color forming organic EL layers are formed in the designated subpixels in accordance with a selected color pattern. The method uses a donor support which is coated with a transferable coating of an organic EL material. The donor support is heated to cause the transfer of the organic EL material onto the designated recessed surface portions of the substrate forming the colored EL medium in the designated subpixels. Optical masks and, alternatively, an aperture mask are used to selectively vapor deposit respective red, green, and blue organic EL media into the designated color EL subpixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 5935721
    Abstract: An organic EL device comprising an anode, a cathode, and an organic electroluminescent element between the anode and the cathode; the organic electroluminescent element includes an organic material or a mixture thereof of 9,10-di-(2-naphthyl)anthracene derivatives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jianmin Shi, Ching W. Tang, Chin H. Chen
  • Patent number: 5935720
    Abstract: An organic EL device, includes an anode and a cathode, and at least one organic luminescent medium containing a compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1, and R.sub.2 are individually alkyl of from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, aryl, carbocyclic and other heterocyclic systems; andR.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are individually alkyl of from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and a branched or unbranched 5 or 6 member substituent ring connecting with R.sub.1, R.sub.2 respectively; andR.sub.5 is alkyl of from 2-20 carbon atoms; sterically hindered aryl and heteroaryl; andR.sub.6 is alkyl of from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and a 5 or 6-member carbocyclic ring connecting with R.sub.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Chin H. Chen, Ching W. Tang, Jianmin Shi
  • Patent number: 5904961
    Abstract: A method of depositing organic layers on a substrate in organic light emitting devices is disclosed. The method uses a donor support which is coated with a transferable coating of an organic donor material selected as one of a plurality of organic materials useful in an organic light emitting device. The donor coating is positioned in transferable relationship with the substrate in an environment of reduced pressure. The donor support is heated to cause the transferable coating of organic donor material to transfer to a position on or over the substrate and to form a layer of the organic material on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ching W. Tang, Joseph K. Madathil, Dustin L. Comfort
  • Patent number: 5900339
    Abstract: A method of making a color filter array on a first substrate is disclosed. The method includes depositing and patterning a photoresist layer on the substrate to form openings over selected regions of the substrate; providing a colorant layer having a heat transferable colorant material on a second substrate and positioning the second substrate such that the heat transferable colorant layer is in transferable relationship with but spaced a distance from the first substrate; heating the second substrate sufficiently to cause substantially all of the heat transferable colorant material to transfer across the spaced distance to the patterned photoresist layer on the first substrate; and removing the patterned photoresist layer leaving behind the heat transferable colorant material in the position of the openings over the selected regions of the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Luther C. Roberts, Ching W. Tang, Robert G. Spahn
  • Patent number: 5851709
    Abstract: A method for selective transfer of a color organic layer from a donor layer onto a device having an array of pixels with each pixel formed from color subpixels, includes the steps of providing a substrate having opposing first and second surfaces; forming a light transmissive heat insulating layer over the first surface of the substrate; forming a light absorbing layer over the heat insulating layer; providing the substrate with an array of openings extending from the second surface to the heat insulating layer, the number and positions of the openings corresponding to the number and positions of the color subpixels of the device, and each opening having a size equal to or smaller than the size of the color subpixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William J. Grande, Paul J. Fleming, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 5776622
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device comprising an anode, an electroluminescent layer, and a cathode. The cathode includes a fluoride layer contacting the electroluminescent layer, a conductive layer contacting the fluoride layer, and the thickness of the fluoride layer being selected so that the bilayer acts as an electron injecting contact, the bilayer providing stability against atmospheric corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sun Hung, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 5756240
    Abstract: A method of making a color filter array on a first substrate having an array of pixels is disclosed. The method includes depositing and patterning a photoresist layer on the substrate layer to form selected openings over pixels in the array; providing a colorant layer having a transferable colorant material on a second substrate and positioning the second substrate such that the transferable colorant material is in transferable relationship with the first substrate; transferring the colorant material to the photoresist layer on the first substrate; and removing the patterned photoresist layer leaving behind the colorant material in the position of the openings over the selected pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Luther C. Roberts, Ching W. Tang, Robert G. Spahn
  • Patent number: 5608287
    Abstract: An electroluminescent device (10) has a bottom electrode layer (13) disposed on a substrate (11) for injecting electrons into an organic layer (15); and a top electrode (17), such as ITO, disposed on the organic layer for injecting holes into the organic layer. The bottom electrode is formed of either metal silicides, such as, rare earth silicides, or metal borides, such as lanthanum boride and chromium boride having a work function of 4.0 eV or less. The electrodes formed from either metal silicates, or metal borides provide protection from atmospheric corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sun Hung, Ching W. Tang, S. Tong Lee
  • Patent number: 5593788
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device of improved efficiency and operational stability has been disclosed. The device comprises of an anode and a cathode, and an organic electroluminescent element disposed between the anode and cathode. Characterized in the organic electroluminescent element is at least one fluorescent emitting layer containing a mixture of two or more materials. The mixture contains a quinacridone compound of the formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently alkyl, aryl, fused aryl or halogen; and R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, or substituted aryl; and n=0, 1, 2 or 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jianmin Shi, Ching W. Tang