Patents by Inventor Hironori Toyoda

Hironori Toyoda 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: 11711939
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11289670
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a lower electrode provided above the substrate; an insulating film provided above the lower electrode and having an opening; an organic layer arranged at least partly in the opening and electrically connected to the lower electrode; and an upper electrode electrically connected above the organic layer; the organic layer includes a hole injection layer, the opening includes a first area arranged to a center side, and a second area arranged on an outer side of the first area, and the hole injection layer has a higher p-dopant concentration in the first area than in the second area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11251230
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes at least one light emitting unit that includes a first electrode, an organic film that includes a light emitting layer and is provided over the first electrode, and a second electrode that is provided over the organic film and transmits light from the light emitting layer, and an optical adjusting layer that covers the at least one light emitting unit. The optical adjusting layer in a first area that overlaps the at least one light emitting unit in a planar view and the optical adjusting layer in at least one second area that is adjacent to the first area are different from each other in at least one of a number of layers that the optical adjusting layer includes, a film thickness, and a refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Norihisa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20210408449
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA
  • Patent number: 11145841
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 11088340
    Abstract: To provide a display device including a light emitting element layer including an anode electrode, a light emissive layer formed on the anode electrode, and a cathode electrode formed on the light emissive layer, and a bank formed on the lower electrode and having an opening, in which the lower electrode is partially exposed, wherein the light emissive layer includes a p-doped hole transport layer containing p-dopant, and the p-doped hole transport layer contains a larger amount of p-dopant in an area close to an end portion of the opening of the bank than the amount of p-dopant contained in other areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10878748
    Abstract: Provided is a display device possessing a first pixel, a second pixel, a partition wall, and an emission-quenching layer. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, a first emission layer located over the first pixel electrode and containing a first emission material, and an opposing electrode over the first emission layer. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel and includes a second pixel electrode, a second emission layer located over the second pixel electrode and containing a second emission material, and the opposing electrode. The emission-quenching layer is sandwiched by the partition wall and the opposing electrode and contains at least one of the first emission material and the second emission material at a concentration higher than at least one of a concentration of the first emission material in the first emission layer and a concentration of the second emission material in the second emission layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20200388655
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes at least one light emitting unit that includes a first electrode, an organic film that includes a light emitting layer and is provided over the first electrode, and a second electrode that is provided over the organic film and transmits light from the light emitting layer, and an optical adjusting layer that covers the at least one light emitting unit. The optical adjusting layer in a first area that overlaps the at least one light emitting unit in a planar view and the optical adjusting layer in at least one second area that is adjacent to the first area are different from each other in at least one of a number of layers that the optical adjusting layer includes, a film thickness, and a refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Norihisa MAEDA
  • Patent number: 10825877
    Abstract: Provided is an electroluminescence display device including, on a substrate, a plurality of pixels having a light emitting layer made of an electroluminescent material obtained by adding a dopant to a host material, and a bank that separates the adjacent pixels and has been subjected to bleaching processing, in which within the plane of the substrate, the concentration of the dopant in the light emitting layer is distributed and the intensity of the bleaching processing performed on the bank is distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10811464
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes at least one light emitting unit that includes a first electrode, an organic film that includes a light emitting layer and is provided over the first electrode, and a second electrode that is provided over the organic film and transmits light from the light emitting layer, and an optical adjusting layer that covers the at least one light emitting unit. The optical adjusting layer in a first area that overlaps the at least one light emitting unit in a planar view and the optical adjusting layer in at least one second area that is adjacent to the first area are different from each other in at least one of a number of layers that the optical adjusting layer includes, a film thickness, and a refractive index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Norihisa Maeda
  • Publication number: 20200258961
    Abstract: Provided is an electroluminescence display device including, on a substrate, a plurality of pixels having a light emitting layer made of an electroluminescent material obtained by adding a dopant to a host material, and a bank that separates the adjacent pixels and has been subjected to bleaching processing, in which within the plane of the substrate, the concentration of the dopant in the light emitting layer is distributed and the intensity of the bleaching processing performed on the bank is distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori TOYODA
  • Patent number: 10651423
    Abstract: The first surface includes a contact area in contact with one of the pixel electrodes. The electroluminescence layer includes a separate layer, the separate layer having sections separated from each other. The separate layer at each of the sections has a first portion and a second portion thinner than the first portion, the first portion overlapping with a central portion of the contact area, the second portion overlapping with an edge portion of the contact area. At least one of the electroluminescence layer and the cap layer has a basis layer and an adjustment layer overlapping with each other, the basis layer continuously overlapping with the first portion and the second portion, the adjustment layer overlapping with the second portion without overlapping with a part of the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20190348637
    Abstract: The first surface includes a contact area in contact with one of the pixel electrodes. The electroluminescence layer includes a separate layer, the separate layer having sections separated from each other. The separate layer at each of the sections has a first portion and a second portion thinner than the first portion, the first portion overlapping with a central portion of the contact area, the second portion overlapping with an edge portion of the contact area. At least one of the electroluminescence layer and the cap layer has a basis layer and an adjustment layer overlapping with each other, the basis layer continuously overlapping with the first portion and the second portion, the adjustment layer overlapping with the second portion without overlapping with a part of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20190334119
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20190325819
    Abstract: Provided is a display device possessing a first pixel, a second pixel, a partition wall, and an emission-quenching layer. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, a first emission layer located over the first pixel electrode and containing a first emission material, and an opposing electrode over the first emission layer. The second pixel is adjacent to the first pixel and includes a second pixel electrode, a second emission layer located over the second pixel electrode and containing a second emission material, and the opposing electrode. The emission-quenching layer is sandwiched by the partition wall and the opposing electrode and contains at least one of the first emission material and the second emission material at a concentration higher than at least one of a concentration of the first emission material in the first emission layer and a concentration of the second emission material in the second emission layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Hironori TOYODA
  • Patent number: 10454055
    Abstract: To provide a display device including a plurality of pixels; a light emitting element layer formed across the plurality of pixels; and a bank formed so as to separately define adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels, wherein the light emitting element layer includes a p-doped hole transport layer containing p-dopant, and the p-doped hole transport layer is formed on each of the pixels such that the p-doped hole transport layers on the respective adjacent pixels are separated from each other on the bank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 10388907
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20190165295
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a substrate; a lower electrode provided above the substrate; an insulating film provided above the lower electrode and having an opening; an organic layer arranged at least partly in the opening and electrically connected to the lower electrode; and an upper electrode electrically connected above the organic layer; the organic layer includes a hole injection layer, the opening includes a first area arranged to a center side, and a second area arranged on an outer side of the first area, and the hole injection layer has a higher p-dopant concentration in the first area than in the second area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori TOYODA
  • Patent number: 10224509
    Abstract: A display device includes a light emitting device layer including a light emitting layer, a light-transmissive upper electrode on the light emitting device layer, a lower electrode having light transmittance and moisture permeability under the light emitting device layer, a light reflection layer under the lower electrode, and a hygroscopic layer having a hygroscopic property between the lower electrode and the light reflection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20190006625
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light-emitting element including a reflective electrode, a light-transmitting electrode over the reflective electrode, a partition wall over the light-transmitting electrode, the partition wall having a first opening and a second opening which overlap with the light-transmitting electrode, an electroluminescence layer over the first opening and the second opening, and an opposing electrode over the electroluminescence layer. A thickness of the light-transmitting electrode in a region overlapping with the first opening is smaller than a thickness of the light-transmitting electrode in a region overlapping with the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: Hironori TOYODA