Patents by Inventor Hayato Kurasawa

Hayato Kurasawa 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: 20190235299
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first substrate including a first conductive layer, a second substrate including a base having a first upper surface on a side opposite to a first lower surface opposed to the first substrate, a second conductive layer provided on the first upper surface, a third conductive layer provided on the first upper surface and electrically connected to the second conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer covering the third conductive layer and having a light-shielding property, a first through hole provided in the base, and an insulating material overlapping the connection material and having a light-shielding property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Yoshikatsu IMAZEKI, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20190220138
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the gate lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes provided in areas defined by the gate lines and the data lines, and a sensor drive controller which includes a plurality of common electrodes facing the pixel electrodes and detects a touch by using the common electrodes. The sensor drive controller selects at least one of the common electrodes as a sensor electrode, detects a touch by using the sensor electrode, and inputs, to the other common electrodes, a guard signal for reducing generation of capacitance between the other common electrodes and the sensor electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Koji Noguchi, Takafumi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190220136
    Abstract: A display device includes: a display layer; plural first electrodes formed to be arranged above the display layer; a shield electrode formed apart from the plural first electrodes so as to surround the whole plural first electrodes along an arrangement surface; an insulating layer; and a semiconductive layer formed opposite to the first electrodes and the shield electrode so as to sandwich the insulating layer, wherein the difference between an average potential of the first electrodes and an average potential of the shield electrode is equal to or less than 0.5V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Koji ISHIZAKI, Kohei AZUMI
  • Publication number: 20190220127
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a touch detection electrode that detects proximity or contact of an object; a drive electrode to which the excitation signal is applied; a first substrate on which the drive elements are provided; a second substrate on which at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode is provided, the second substrate being bonded to the first substrate to face each other via a sealing member; a conductor that electrically is coupled to at least one of the touch detection electrode and the drive electrode; and a conductor support member that fills a space between the first substrate and the second substrate and on the surface of which the conductor is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Publication number: 20190220147
    Abstract: Included are a first cover base including an alkali glass layer, a first alkali-free glass layer provided on one face of the alkali glass layer, and a second alkali-free glass layer provided on another face of the alkali glass layer and a sensor that is provided on the first alkali-free glass layer of the first cover base and includes a plurality of first electrodes configured to detect the unevenness of a surface of an object to be detected that comes into contact with or close to the first cover base and a switching element. At least the first electrodes are formed above the first alkali-free glass layer and in a transmissive area that passes an image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Shoji Hinata, Toshinori Uehara, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yuji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Patent number: 10353528
    Abstract: A detection device includes a substrate; a plurality of first conductive thin wires provided in a plane parallel to the substrate and extending in a first direction; a plurality of second conductive thin wires provided in the same layer as that of the first conductive thin wires and extending in a second direction forming an angle with the first direction; first groups that are disposed in first strip-like regions respectively having a first width, each of the first groups including at least two of the first conductive thin wires displaced from one another in the second direction; and second groups that are disposed in second strip-like regions respectively having a second width, each of the second groups including at least two of the second conductive thin wires displaced from one another in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 10353250
    Abstract: A liquid crystal includes first and second substrates, the first substrate including intersecting data lines and scan lines. A liquid crystal layer is sandwiched therebetween. Also, a plurality of sub-pixels districted by data lines and gate lines, and arranged along the long-axis and the short-axis directions in a matrix. A pixel electrode in the sub-pixels includes a central portion. A common electrode including linear electrodes arranged along the data lines and disposed with gaps therebetween. Sub-pixels are bent at the center portion, such that the linear electrodes or the gaps in both sides of the sub-pixels are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the long-axis direction. At least one of the linear electrodes or at least one of the gaps has a bent portion at the central portion of the respective pixel electrode. The common electrode is provided on liquid crystal layer side over the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takao Atarashiya, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Patent number: 10353512
    Abstract: A display apparatus capable of reducing the lowering of detection sensitivity is provided. A display apparatus provided with a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form includes: detection electrodes which are in parallel with each other, which are arranged so as to extend in a first direction, and which are connected so as to form a magnetic-field detection coil; and a detection electrode having one end which is arranged inside the magnetic-field detection coil and which is connected to the magnetic-field detection coil, and the other end which is electrically insulated from the magnetic-field detection coil. At the time of each of the magnetic field detection and the electric field detection, an external object is detected based on a change in a signal in the detection electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Yuji Suzuki, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 10355058
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of first detection electrodes that are respectively disposed in a plurality of first areas, which are shaped in a stripe pattern and extend in the first direction, and extend in a first direction, an insulating layer that is disposed in a grid-like area, covers the first detection electrodes, and is placed on perimeters of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of second detection electrodes that are disposed on a sealing layer along a plurality of second areas and extend in a second direction, the second areas being included in the grid-like area, shaped in a stripe pattern, and extending in the second direction. The common electrodes are respectively disposed on a plurality of second banks and continue to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Mitsuhide Miyamoto, Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Shuji Hayashi, Yoshitoshi Kida
  • Publication number: 20190212871
    Abstract: A detection device is capable of detecting an external proximity object, and includes a substrate and a plurality of detection electrodes. The detection electrodes are each provided with a plurality of thin conductive wires having a plurality of first thin wire pieces and a plurality of second thin wire pieces which are electrically conducted with one another. Angles each of which is formed by an intersection between the first thin wire piece extending in a first direction and the second thin wire piece extending in a second direction different from the first direction included in the thin conductive wire, are constant, and a distance between the first thin wire pieces of different thin conductive wires is not constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventor: Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20190212870
    Abstract: A touch detection device includes: a substrate including a display region for displaying an image, a first frame region outside the display region, and a second frame region outside the first frame region; a plurality of detection electrodes that are arranged in the display region on a face parallel with the substrate and include metal wires; and frame wires that are coupled to the detection electrodes and arranged in the first frame region and the second frame region. A ratio of a covering area of the frame wires to a predetermined area of the substrate in the first frame region is smaller than a ratio of the covering area of the frame wires to the predetermined area of the substrate in the second frame region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Patent number: 10345931
    Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function capable of improving accuracy is provided. The display apparatus includes: a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form; and a plurality of signal wires arranged in the pixel array. Here, when an externally-detecting object is detected, a plurality of coils having areas overlapping with each other are formed of a plurality of signal wires (drive electrodes) among the plurality of signal wires, and a magnetic field generated in the plurality of respective coils are superimposed in an overlapped area by supplying a drive signal to the plurality of coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Daichi Suzuki, Fumitaka Gotoh
  • Publication number: 20190204956
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detecting apparatus includes: a touch detection electrode provided along a touch detection surface; a strain gauge integrated with the touch detection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Taiki Kasai, Hayato Kurasawa
  • Publication number: 20190196637
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detecting function includes: a substrate; a display area; a touch detection electrode provided with a plurality of conductive thin wires, each of the conductive thin wires including a plurality of thin wire pieces each having a linear shape and including a first end and a second end; a drive electrode; and a display functional layer. The adjacent thin wire pieces are arranged so as to be bent at a bent portion serving as a portion at which the second end of the one thin wire piece of the adjacent thin wire pieces is connected to the first end of the other thin wire piece of the adjacent thin wire pieces, and the conductive thin wires include a bent portion having an angle formed by the adjacent thin wire pieces different from angles of the other bent portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Takeo KOITO, Koji ISHIZAKI, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Patent number: 10324559
    Abstract: A display device unit includes a plurality of image display panels in such a manner that display surfaces of the plurality of image display panels are orderly arranged on a flat surface, and is configured to display an image using the plurality of display surfaces as a single screen. The image display panel includes a drive electrode unit to which an application voltage is applied and a detection electrode unit at which a detection voltage is generated in accordance with the application voltage. The application voltage is applied solely to the drive electrode unit included in an application image display panel which is a part of the image display panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Hayato Kurasawa, Masahiro Togashi, Tsutomu Harada, Yuji Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190179457
    Abstract: A sensor-equipped display device is provided and includes a display panel and a detection electrode. The panel includes a display area in which pixels are arranged with a first pixel pitch in a first direction and a second pixel pitch in a second direction. The electrode includes an pattern having line fragments. The pattern has connection points at which ends of the fragments are connected to each other, and at least part of the connection points is arranged linearly such that an arrangement gaps thereof in the first and second direction is set to a first and second connection point pitch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Koji ISHIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190171859
    Abstract: A fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, the first surface serving as a detection surface configured to detect unevenness of an object in contact or in proximity; a detection electrode provided on the second surface side of the substrate and configured to detect unevenness of a finger in contact or in proximity on the basis of an electrostatic capacitance change; and a drive circuit provided on the second surface side of the substrate and configured to supply a drive signal to the detection electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Toshinori Uehara, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 10310166
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a light source, a lightguide, and reflective elements. The lightguide includes a first end facing the light source, a first surface opposed to the display panel, and a second surface. The reflective elements are disposed inside the lightguide, the elements configured to reflect light passing through the first end to spread in the lightguide and to transmit the light through the first surface. Reflective elements are arranged to be apart from the first or second surface with a certain distance and has a reflective surface facing the first surface and projects toward the second surface, the reflective surface is inclined such that the light from the first end can be irradiated to the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshinori Uehara, Hayato Kurasawa, Masashi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 10303291
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting with the gate lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a sensor drive controller which includes a plurality of common electrodes facing the pixel electrodes and detects a touch by controlling the common electrodes. The sensor drive controller selects at least one of the common electrodes, and supplies a sensor signal to the selected common electrode to set the selected common electrode to a sensing state. The sensor drive controller sets at least the common electrode adjacent to the common electrode set to the sensing state to a guard state and sets the other common electrodes to a floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 10303313
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes, a switching element, and a first electrode. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The pixel electrodes are provided to the first surface side and supplied with a pixel signal for displaying an image. The switching element is provided to the first surface side and coupled to the pixel electrodes. The first electrode is provided to a layer closer to the first surface than the switching element in a manner facing the switching element in a direction perpendicular to the first surface of the substrate and having lower light transmittance than that of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Noguchi