Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Miwa
Hiroaki Miwa 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).
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Patent number: 7872725Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
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Patent number: 7773189Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided that includes a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with a liquid crystal therebetween, and columnar spacers that are substantially equal in height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one of the pair of substrates, where the columnar spacers include a first columnar spacer which is in contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of the other substrate of the pair of substrates and a second columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of that other substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2008Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
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Patent number: 7746428Abstract: In manufacturing a liquid crystal display element which includes a black matrix, in curing an ultraviolet curing sealing material after filling liquid crystal using a dropping injection method, there has been a possibility that a radiation quantity of ultraviolet rays to the sealing material is insufficient and hence, the curing is not sufficiently performed thus largely lowering the reliability of the liquid crystal display element. According to the present invention, an overlapping width of a frame-like sealing material and a black matrix on a peripheral portion along a display region is suppressed to 0.2 mm or less, or a region of the black matrix which is overlapped to the frame-like sealing member is patterned to include a light transmitting portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2007Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090322999Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device where a display panel and a transparent cover which are pasted together can be separated from each other without breaking the liquid crystal display panel and the transparent cover. The present invention provides a display device having: a liquid crystal display panel having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate which is provided on the viewer side relative to the first substrate; a polarizing plate provided on the above described liquid crystal display panel on the above described viewer side; a viscous film pasted on the viewer side relative to the above described polarizing plate; and a transparent cover pasted on the viewer side relative to the above described viscous film, wherein the above described viscous film is made up of a multilayer body of gluing agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventors: Yasushi Sano, Kiyoshi Sentou, Hideaki Nakatsuka, Hiroaki Miwa, Risa Takahashi
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Patent number: 7630050Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel which can prevent a leak path of a sealing material when liquid crystal is brought into contact with an uncured sealing material in a sealing step and a manufacturing method thereof. In a liquid crystal display panel which forms a display region by providing liquid crystal in a gap defined between one substrate and another substrate, a weir which is continuously formed so as to surround the display region and a sealing material which is arranged to cover the weir are arranged on a surface of one substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii
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Publication number: 20090268148Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2009Publication date: October 29, 2009Inventors: Keiichiro ASHIZAWA, Mitsuo NAKATANI, Hiroaki MIWA, Takao TANAKA, Sadafumi HIRAI, Shinichi KAWABE, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki ITO, Masahiro IEDA
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Publication number: 20090237602Abstract: A face plate on which a frame is formed for improved design aesthetics is bonded to a top surface of an upper polarizer of a liquid crystal display panel with a pressure-sensitive adhesive material. The frame on the face plate is formed from five layers of printing. The pressure-sensitive adhesive material has a three-layer structure having a first pressure-sensitive adhesive member, a base material, and a second pressure-sensitive adhesive member. The first pressure-sensitive adhesive member is formed thicker than the second pressure-sensitive adhesive member, and hence the pressure-sensitive adhesive material can maintain a necessary thickness above the frame formed on the face plate. The reliability of adhesion between the face plate and the liquid crystal display panel is thus improved.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2009Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Hidenao Kubota, Hiroaki Miwa
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Publication number: 20090215351Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device in which a transparent substrate is bonded to a display panel by an adhesive, includes: applying the adhesive to the display panel or the transparent substrate in a predetermined pattern; bonding the display panel and the transparent substrate together by means of the adhesive after the applying step; and curing the adhesive after the bonding step, wherein in the applying step, a viscosity of the adhesive being more than 5000 mPa·s and 15000 mPa·s or less, the application of the adhesive is carried out by a screen printing, a time from a finishing point of the application of the adhesive in the applying step until a starting point of the bonding in the bonding step is 10 seconds or more and 120 seconds or less, in the bonding step, in a condition in which the adhesive applied in the applying step is spreading, with air bubbles remaining, and a maximum size of the air bubbles is 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2009Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii
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Publication number: 20090190071Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can prevent the generation of bubbles on an adhesive surface between a liquid crystal display panel and a face plate which protects the liquid crystal display panel is provided. In mounting the face plate on an upper polarizer of the liquid crystal display panel by way of an adhesive material, a picture frame is formed on a periphery of the face plate for enhancing design property. Although the picture frame is formed by printing black ink, a quantity of Si present in the black ink is set to not more than 0.7% and not less than 0.01% thus preventing the generation of bubbles attributed to defective adhesion between the face plate and the adhesive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2009Publication date: July 30, 2009Inventors: Hidenao Kubota, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Hiroaki Miwa, Shinji Tanabe, Yoshiaki Sakurai
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Patent number: 7522251Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device in which a seal width at a cutting portion of substrates is small and defects caused at the time of cutting the substrates can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Sadafumi Hirai, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Hiroaki Miwa
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Publication number: 20090040452Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device. In one aspect, the method may include laminating two or more multipiece boards to each other by way of a sealing material, applying surface polishing to at least one of the multipiece boards using an etchant, and separating the multipiece boards into respective liquid crystal cells by cutting. In further aspects, the sealing material may include individual sealing materials which are formed on regions of the respective liquid crystal cells, an outer peripheral sealing material which surrounds the respective individual sealing materials and forms an opening at least in a portion thereof, and a weir sealing material of a pattern in which the weir sealing material is formed inside the outer peripheral sealing material and in the vicinity of the opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2008Publication date: February 12, 2009Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii, Takashi Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20090033858Abstract: A manufacturing method is provided for a liquid crystal display device that can avoid any possible inconvenience as a result of a difficulty in controlling the dropping amount of a liquid crystal. For executing the method, the liquid crystal display device has a pair of substrates disposed in an opposed manner including a liquid crystal display area with a diagonal length in a range from 1 inch to 5 inches, and a plurality of column spacers is formed in the liquid crystal display area of at least one of the substrates. The method includes the steps of: forming a sealant, with a width in a range from 0.4 mm to 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2008Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Takashi Yamamoto, Sadafumi Hirai, Hiroaki Miwa, Setsuo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20080259267Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2008Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
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Publication number: 20080212012Abstract: To provide a liquid crystal display device in which a seal width at a cutting portion of substrates is small and defects caused at the time of cutting the substrates can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2007Publication date: September 4, 2008Inventors: Sadafumi Hirai, Setsuo Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Ishii, Hiroaki Miwa
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Patent number: 7399284Abstract: An ultrasonic irradiation apparatus irradiates ultrasonic waves onto a wide area having three-dimensionally curved surfaces. An ultrasonic irradiator having a plurality of ultrasonic transducer is arranged in a plane. The position of at least a portion of the ultrasonic transducers is mutually and flexibly changeable in three dimensions. Ultrasonic transducers are installed on a surface of a flexible and/or elastic sheet member or net member. The ultrasonic irradiator may include a plurality of ultrasonic transducers formed on a flexible piezoelectric sheet member, including driving electrodes arranged on one surface and opposed electrodes arranged on another surface. The ultrasonic irradiator may be installed on or inside of a flexible planar bag containing a fluidic ultrasonic conductive medium. A mechanism is provided for moving or tilting the ultrasonic irradiator with respect to the object, or a band-holding member may be provided for fitting the irradiator to the object.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Miwa Science Laboratory Inc.Inventors: Hirohide Miwa, Hiroaki Miwa, Masato Kino
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Publication number: 20080153377Abstract: To prevent bubbles from remaining when a transparent substrate is bonded via an adhesive with a display panel. A manufacturing method of a display device in which a transparent substrate is bonded with a display panel via an adhesive, including a coating step of coating the adhesive onto the display panel or the transparent substrate in a predetermined pattern, a bonding step of bonding the display panel and the transparent substrate via the adhesive after the coating step, and a curing step of curing the adhesive after the bonding step, characterized in that the adhesive has a viscosity of 2000 to 5000 mPa·s at the coating step, the display panel and the transparent substrate are bonded via the adhesive in a reduced pressure atmosphere lower than the atmospheric pressure in a state where the adhesive coated at the coating step is spread and the size of bubble is 1 mm or less at maximum at the bonding step, and the adhesive is cured by applying ultraviolet ray at the curing step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii, Shuji Iwasaki
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Patent number: 7385666Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.Inventors: Keiichiro Ashizawa, Mitsuo Nakatani, Hiroaki Miwa, Takao Tanaka, Sadafumi Hirai, Shinichi Kawabe, Makoto Sasaki, Kazuyuki Ito, Masahiro Ieda
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Publication number: 20080062374Abstract: A production method of a liquid crystal display device that is constructed by placing liquid crystals between a first substrate and a second substrate. The production method includes a step of applying seal material onto the first substrate such that the seal material surrounds a liquid crystal filling area, and a step of bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together. The layer of the seal material is formed such that the thickness becomes smaller than the thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the portion corresponding to the display area when the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded together.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventors: Nobuhito Katsumura, Hiroaki Miwa
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Publication number: 20080030670Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device having an ODF (one drop-fill) type middle-sized or miniaturized liquid crystal display panel. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a liquid crystal display panel having a pair of substrates, a sealing member which is formed on a peripheral portion between the pair of substrates without a cut, and liquid crystal which is sealed in a space surrounded by the sealing member between the pair of substrates, one substrate out of the pair of substrates includes at least one line layer which is formed along a first side of one substrate, and a portion of the sealing member which is formed along the first side of one substrate is formed in a zigzag pattern such that the sealing member traverses at least one line layer plural times.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2007Publication date: February 7, 2008Inventors: Katsuhiko Ishii, Takashi Yamamoto, Hiroaki Miwa, Setsuo Kobayashi
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Publication number: 20070263159Abstract: In manufacturing a liquid crystal display element which includes a black matrix, in curing an ultraviolet curing sealing material after filling liquid crystal using a dropping injection method, there has been a possibility that a radiation quantity of ultraviolet rays to the sealing material is insufficient and hence, the curing is not sufficiently performed thus largely lowering the reliability of the liquid crystal display element. According to the present invention, an overlapping width of a frame-like sealing material and a black matrix on a peripheral portion along a display region is suppressed to 0.2 mm or less, or a region of the black matrix which is overlapped to the frame-like sealing member is patterned to include a light transmitting portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Inventors: Setsuo Kobayashi, Hiroaki Miwa, Katsuhiko Ishii, Takashi Yamamoto