Patents by Inventor Hiroki Sugiyama

Hiroki Sugiyama 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: 11460739
    Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions overlapping the first light-transmitting electrodes and provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light source configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode that at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. An area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region closer to the light source is larger than an area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region farther from the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Mizuno, Yoshihide Ohue, Hiroki Sugiyama, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11430875
    Abstract: A first barrier layer, a channel layer, a second barrier layer, and a first bonding layer made of high-resistance AlGaN doped with Fe are formed on a first substrate. Thereafter, the first substrate and the second substrate are pasted in a state where the first bonding layer and a second bonding layer made of high-resistance GaN doped with Fe are opposed to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Hoshi, Yuki Yoshiya, Hiroki Sugiyama, Hideaki Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20220254909
    Abstract: A channel layer has a quantum well structure including InGaAs or InGaAsSb, and includes a first barrier layer, a well layer, and a second barrier layer. A first intermediate layer is provided between the first barrier layer and the well layer, and a second intermediate layer is provided between the second barrier layer and the well layer. The first and second intermediate layers include InGaAs or InGaAsSb having an In composition ratio greater than that of the first and second barrier layers and smaller than that of the well layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu Mitsuhara, Hiroki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220244606
    Abstract: A display device according to an aspect includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions that overlap the first light-transmitting electrodes in a plan view and are provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light emitter configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode and a conductive metal layer. The third light-transmitting electrode at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an inorganic insulating layer interposed therebetween, and the conductive metal layer is stacked on the third light-transmitting electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Manabu MIZUNO, Kentaro OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220208998
    Abstract: An emitter contact layer, an emitter layer, a base layer, a p-type base layer, a collector layer, and a sub-collector layer are crystal-grown over a first substrate in this order with the main surface as the Group III polar surface. The emitter contact layer includes a nitride semiconductor that is made n-type at a relatively high concentration. The emitter layer includes a nitride semiconductor having a bandgap larger than that of the nitride semiconductor constituting the emitter contact layer. The base layer includes an undoped nitride semiconductor having a bandgap smaller than that of the nitride semiconductor constituting the emitter layer. The p-type base layer includes the same nitride semiconductor as the base layer and made p-type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Takuya Hoshi, Yuki Yoshiya, Yuta Shiratori, Hiroki Sugiyama, Minoru Ida, Hideaki Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20220187652
    Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scanning lines; a grid-shaped organic insulating layer that extends along the scanning lines and the signal lines and overlies the scanning lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes provided in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines; and a first orientation film that covers the pixel electrodes. A portion of each pixel electrodes overlaps a slant surface of the organic insulating layer. The counter substrate includes: a common electrode overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a protective film that has an insulating capability and a light transmitting capability and covers a side of the common electrode facing the array substrate at least in the display region; and a second orientation film that covers the protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Yuuji OOMORI
  • Patent number: 11340508
    Abstract: A display device according to an aspect includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions that overlap the first light-transmitting electrodes in a plan view and are provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light emitter configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode and a conductive metal layer. The third light-transmitting electrode at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an inorganic insulating layer interposed therebetween, and the conductive metal layer is stacked on the third light-transmitting electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sugiyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Manabu Mizuno, Kentaro Okuyama
  • Patent number: 11330141
    Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) memory that stores image data acquired by reading a document is connectable with an image reader. The image reader includes a storage capacity detector that detects storage capacity capable of storing information in the USB memory at a time point of reading a document, a capacity comparison section that compares size of the image data acquired by reading the document with the storage capacity of the USB memory, a data extractor that extracts the data to be moved to another storage medium from data that has already been stored in the USB memory, and a data mover that moves the data extracted by the data extractor to the other storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hiroki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220113593
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a first light-transmissive substrate; a second light-transmissive substrate arranged to face the first light-transmissive substrate; a liquid crystal layer including polymer dispersed liquid crystals sealed between the first light-transmissive substrate and the second light-transmissive substrate; at least one light-emitting device arranged to face at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate; and at least one reflector arranged on at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate, the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate being on an opposite side of the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate to which the at least one light-emitting device faces, and configured to reflect light at the side surface on the opposite side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Manabu MIZUNO, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Hiroshi INAMURA, Hiroki SUGIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220051889
    Abstract: A first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, and a third semiconductor layer are crystal-grown in this order on a first substrate in the +c axis direction, a second substrate is bonded to the side of the barrier layer of the first substrate, and after that, the first substrate is removed, and the first semiconductor layer is selectively thermally decomposed by heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Yuki Yoshiya, Takuya Hoshi, Hiroki Sugiyama, Hideaki Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 11237431
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a first light-transmissive substrate; a second light-transmissive substrate arranged to face the first light-transmissive substrate; a liquid crystal layer including polymer dispersed liquid crystals sealed between the first light-transmissive substrate and the second light-transmissive substrate; at least one light-emitting device arranged to face at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate; and at least one reflector arranged on at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate, the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate being on an opposite side of the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate to which the at least one light-emitting device faces, and configured to reflect light at the side surface on the opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu Mizuno, Kentaro Okuyama, Hiroshi Inamura, Hiroki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20220029009
    Abstract: A buffer layer, an etching stop layer, and a channel layer are epitaxially grown in this order on a substrate. The substrate contains InP that has a high resistance by, for example, being doped with Fe. The buffer layer contains a compound semiconductor lattice-matched to InP. The etching stop layer includes InxAl1-xP (0?x?0.75). The channel layer contains InyGa1-y As (0<y?1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventor: Hiroki Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20210398857
    Abstract: A first regrowth layer and a second regrowth layer comprising GaAs having high resistance are regrown on a surface of an etching stop layer exposed to the bottom of a first groove and a second groove, and then n-type InGaAs is regrown on the first regrowth layer and the second regrowth layer, whereby a source region and a drain region configured to make contact with a channel layer are formed in the first groove and the second groove respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Hoshi, Yuki Yoshiya, Hiroki Sugiyama, Hideaki Matsuzaki
  • Publication number: 20210373395
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate including a first pixel and a second pixel, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer containing polymer and liquid crystal molecules, and a light emitting element, wherein the second pixel is located between the light emitting element and the first pixel, the first substrate includes a switching element including a semiconductor layer arranged in the first pixel, a pixel electrode, and a first light shielding portion arranged in the second pixel and being adjacent to the semiconductor layer, the first light shielding portion is located between the semiconductor layer and the light emitting element in planar view and located on a side closer to the first pixel than a center of the second pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Tomoyuki TADA
  • Patent number: 11181784
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device including a first substrate having a first end portion, a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a second end portion separated from the first end portion, a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate, a light-emitting element facing the second end portion, a first sealing member bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, and a low refractive area located between the first substrate and the second substrate, located between the second end portion and the first sealing member in planar view, and containing a material having a refractive index lower than that of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Hiroki Sugiyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Yudai Numata
  • Publication number: 20210286220
    Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions overlapping the first light-transmitting electrodes and provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light source configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode that at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. An area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region closer to the light source is larger than an area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region farther from the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Manabu MIZUNO, Yoshihide OHUE, Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Kentaro OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210286226
    Abstract: A display device according to an aspect includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions that overlap the first light-transmitting electrodes in a plan view and are provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light emitter configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode and a conductive metal layer. The third light-transmitting electrode at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an inorganic insulating layer interposed therebetween, and the conductive metal layer is stacked on the third light-transmitting electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Manabu MIZUNO, Kentaro OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20210116759
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a first light-transmissive substrate; a second light-transmissive substrate arranged to face the first light-transmissive substrate; a liquid crystal layer including polymer dispersed liquid crystals sealed between the first light-transmissive substrate and the second light-transmissive substrate; at least one light-emitting device arranged to face at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate; and at least one reflector arranged on at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate, the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate being on an opposite side of the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate to which the at least one light-emitting device faces, and configured to reflect light at the side surface on the opposite side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Manabu MIZUNO, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Hiroshi INAMURA, Hiroki SUGIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10942396
    Abstract: A display device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a first substrate including a pixel portion and a terminal portion, a second substrate arranged to face the pixel portion, a first light source device arranged in the terminal portion, and irradiating a first end surface of the second substrate with first light, a liquid crystal layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a semiconductor element arranged on a side opposite to a side of the pixel portion across the first light source device, and electrically coupled with the terminal portion, wherein the first light is propagated while reflected between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the liquid crystal layer modulates the propagated first light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroki Sugiyama, Kentaro Okuyama, Hideki Kaneko, Hiroshi Inamura, Manabu Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20210029266
    Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) memory that stores image data acquired by reading a document is connectable with an image reader. The image reader includes a storage capacity detector that detects storage capacity capable of storing information in the USB memory at a time point of reading a document, a capacity comparison section that compares size of the image data acquired by reading the document with the storage capacity of the USB memory, a data extractor that extracts the data to be moved to another storage medium from data that has already been stored in the USB memory, and a data mover that moves the data extracted by the data extractor to the other storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventor: HIROKI SUGIYAMA