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).

  • Patent number: 10802319
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, lead wirings provided on the first substrate or the second substrate and a first insulator part provided on an upper surface of the second substrate. The lead wirings are arranged in a peripheral region when seen in a plan view and the first insulator part is arranged so as to overlap a display region when seen in a plan view. Second insulator parts or spaces with a permittivity lower than a permittivity of the first insulator part are provided at sides of the first insulator part. The second insulator parts or the spaces are arranged so as to overlap the lead wirings in the peripheral region when seen in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Masanobu Ikeda, Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10802639
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes first electrodes and a detection electrode. The first electrodes constitute sensor drive electrodes by being supplied with sensor drive signals separately and sequentially or sensor drive electrodes by simultaneously supplying the sensor drive signals to the first electrodes adjacent to each other. A width of the sensor drive electrode including the first electrode on the edge is smaller than a width of the other sensor drive electrode not including the first electrode on the edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Yasuyuki Teranishi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Koji Ishizaki, Daisuke Ito
  • Patent number: 10788932
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: first detectors that output first signal values corresponding to contact of detection target objects with first regions; at least one second detector that outputs at least one second signal value corresponding to at least one first force applied by the detection target objects to press at least one second region corresponding to the first regions; and a controller that calculates at least one third signal value corresponding to at least one second force applied by at least one of the detection target objects to the at least one second region, based on the first signal values, the at least one second signal value, and at least one reference value corresponding to a third force per at least one of the first signal values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Shinya Iuchi, Masahiro Togashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Michio Yamamoto, Tatsunori Nagai
  • Patent number: 10788942
    Abstract: An input device is provided and including a substrate; a plurality of first metal or alloy electrodes provided along a first direction on a main surface of the substrate; a plurality of second metal or alloy electrodes provided along a second direction intersecting with the first direction on the same surface as the main surface; and a protective film covering the plurality of first metal or alloy electrodes and the plurality of second metal or alloy electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display, Inc.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
  • Patent number: 10775951
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a detection device includes a substrate, detection electrode, terminal formed of a metal material, lead, coating layer, conductive adhesion layer, and circuit board. The lead connects the electrode and the terminal. The coating layer covers the electrode and the lead, and partly covers the terminal. The adhesion layer covers a part of the terminal exposed from the coating layer and covers a part of the coating layer. The circuit board is connected to the terminal with the adhesion layer interposed therebetween. At least in an overlapping area where the adhesion layer covers the coating layer, an area of the metal material per unit area is smaller than that of the other area of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Keisuke Asada, Tatsuya Ide, Koji Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 10775923
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Koji Ishizaki, Kohei Azumi
  • Patent number: 10768756
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, first electrodes, lines, pixel electrodes, a display functional layer, a common electrode, second electrodes, and a controller. The first electrodes are opposed to the second electrodes with a space therebetween, and an insulating layer is provided between the common electrode and the first and second electrodes. During the display periods, in response to a control signal from the controller, the pixel electrodes are supplied with a pixel signal through the lines, and the common electrode is supplied with a common signal. During the sensing period, in response to the control signal from the controller, the lines are supplied with a first drive signal to generate a magnetic field. The first electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal to generate electrostatic capacitance between themselves and the second electrodes in response to the control signal from the controller, synchronously or asynchronously with the display periods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Tadayoshi Katsuta
  • Publication number: 20200278572
    Abstract: A display device is provided and including first and second substrates, wherein the first substrate includes a first area, a second area overlapping the second substrate, a first edge extending in a first direction, a first terminal portion on the first area; the second substrate has a first protruding portion protruding toward the first edge of the first substrate and a second edge including a linear portion along the first edge and a curved portion connected to the linear portion and extending toward the first edge, the curved portion constitutes a part of a edge of the first protruding portion, and a width in the first direction of the first protruding portion gradually decreases toward the first edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Hayato KURASAWA, Masanobu IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20200257386
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function is provided and includes a substrate; pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes; drive electrodes including first and second drive electrodes; a display function layer that exerts an image display function based on a pixel signal; a drive electrode driver configured to apply a touch driving signal for touch detection or a common signal for display to the respective drive electrodes; and a source driver configured to apply the pixel signal to the respective pixel electrodes, wherein when the pixel and common signals are provided, the second pixel electrode is in a floating state and the touch driving signal is provided to the second drive electrode, thereby enabling image display function on a first sub-pixel corresponding to first pixel and drive electrodes and touch detection function on a second sub-pixel corresponding to second pixel and drive electrodes to occur concurrently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Hayato KURASAWA
  • Patent number: 10739890
    Abstract: A display device includes: a first substrate; a display functional layer; a plurality of first electrodes; a light guide plate; a plurality of second electrodes; and a controller configured to control the first and second electrodes. The first substrate, the display functional layer, the first electrodes, the light guide plate, and the second electrodes are stacked in this order. The controller performs operations during a plurality of display periods to display an image, during a first sensing period, and during a second sensing period in a time-division manner. The first electrodes are supplied with a first drive signal and an electromotive force caused by electromagnetic induction is generated in the second electrodes during the first sensing period. The first electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal to generate electrostatic capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrodes during the second sensing period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Toshinori Uehara
  • Patent number: 10739917
    Abstract: In a display apparatus provided with an electrophoresis layer, such a display apparatus capable of operating a driving electrode for use in displaying an image as an electrode for use in detecting an input position is provided. A display apparatus includes: a substrate; another substrate that is disposed so as to face the substrate; an electrophoresis layer sandwiched between the substrate and another substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the substrate; and a plurality of driving electrodes formed on another substrate. An electric field is formed between each of the plurality of pixel electrodes and each of the plurality of driving electrodes, so that an image is displayed, and an input position is detected based on an electrostatic capacitance of each of the plurality of driving electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Yoshiharu Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10739905
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a display panel, a detection electrode, a conductive member arranged at intervals from the display panel and the detection electrode, and controller. In a first sense period, the controller drives a common electrode of the display panel or the detection electrode and extracts input position data from the detection electrode. In a second sense period, the controller drives the conductive member and extracts first input pressure data from a first electrode, the controller drives a second electrode and extracts second input pressure data from the conductive member, or the controller drives a third electrode and extracts third input pressure data from the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Hayato Kurasawa, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Masaya Tamaki, Takeo Koito, Koji Noguchi
  • Patent number: 10739903
    Abstract: The reliability of a display device with an input device is improved. A plurality of detection electrodes (input position detection electrodes) forming an electrostatic capacity between them and a common electrode of a display device to detect an input position are formed on a different substrate from substrates configuring the display device. Moreover, a polarizing plate and the substrate on which the plurality of detection electrodes are formed are adhesively fixed via, for example, an adhesive layer so that the plurality of detection electrodes are fixed so as to be separated apart from the display device. Thus, a distance between electrodes (the detection electrode and a driving electrode) for detecting an input position can be set separately from a thickness of the display device, and therefore, reduction in detection sensitivity (detection reliability) for the input position due to increase in the electrostatic capacity can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kohei Azumi, Koji Ishizaki, Hideki Kaneko, Tsutomu Harada
  • Publication number: 20200242318
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor is provided and includes a substrate; sensor electrodes arranged in a matrix on the substrate; switches coupled to the sensor electrodes; a control line drive circuit; a signal line drive circuit; signal lines coupling the signal line drive circuit to the sensor electrodes through the switches; control lines transmitting a selection signal to the switches from the control line drive circuit; and a sensor drive electrode surrounding the matrix of the sensor electrodes, wherein a distance of the sensor drive electrode from a surface of the substrate is larger than a distance of the sensor electrodes from the surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Fumihito SHIBANO, Hiroshi MIZUHASHI, Toshinori UEHARA, Kimiyo NONOYAMA, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200233511
    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: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Koji ISHIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200233524
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function is provided and includes a display unit that includes a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of counter electrodes facing the pixel electrodes, and that displays an image at a resolution in accordance with the number of the pixel electrodes; and a controller that alternately executes, in one frame period, a display operation in a display period by driving the pixel electrodes and the counter electrodes, and a touch detection operation in a touch period by driving the counter electrodes, wherein the controller that changes a ratio between the display period and the touch period in the one frame period in accordance with a resolution of an image to be displayed in the one frame period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Masanobu IKEDA, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200225805
    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 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Shoji Hinata, Toshinori Uehara, Hiroshi Mizuhashi, Yuji Suzuki, Yasuhiro Kanaya
  • Publication number: 20200225802
    Abstract: A detection apparatus includes a substrate, a display area, a peripheral area, a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals, a first wire, and a second wire. The display area is provided on the surface of the substrate. The peripheral area is provided outside the display area. The electrodes are provided to the display area. The terminals are provided in correspondence with the respective electrodes in the peripheral area. The first wire couples an electrode to a terminal. The second wire couples the electrode to the terminal to which the first wire is coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Koji NOGUCHI, Koji ISHIZAKI, Hayato KURASAWA
  • Publication number: 20200226347
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of drive electrodes provided on one surface side of the substrate and arranged in a first direction; and a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the one surface side and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The detection electrodes intersect the drive electrodes in a normal direction of the substrate. Each of the detection electrodes includes: a plurality of first line portions; a plurality of second line portions extending in a direction intersecting the first line portions; and a plurality of bent portions each connecting one of the first line portions and one of the second line portions adjacent to the one of the first line portions to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Yoshitaka OZEKI, Toshinori UEHARA, Yuji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20200226343
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a fingerprint detection device includes: a substrate; a plurality of drive electrodes provided on one surface side of the substrate and arranged in a first direction; a plurality of detection electrodes provided on the one surface side and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and an insulating layer provided in a normal direction of the substrate between each of the drive electrodes and the corresponding detection electrodes. The detection electrodes intersect the drive electrodes in the normal direction of the substrate. The detection electrodes include: a first metallic layer; and a second metallic layer positioned closer to the one surface than the first metallic layer to the one surface. The first metallic layer has a reflectance of visible light lower than that of the second metallic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Yoshitaka OZEKI, Toshinori UEHARA, Yuji SUZUKI