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).

  • Publication number: 20150090992
    Abstract: In an organic EL display device having plural organic EL elements each including an organic light emitting layer, an upper electrode formed on an upper side of the organic light emitting layer, and a reflective layer formed on a lower side of the organic light emitting layer, in which an image is displayed on a side of the organic light emitting layer on which the upper electrode is formed. The reflective layer in each of the organic EL elements includes a first plane, a second plane formed on a side lower than the first plane; and an inclined plane formed between the first plane and the second plane, and linearly inclined at a given angle equal to or higher than 35°, and equal to or lower than 55°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Toshio MIYAZAWA, Mitsuhide MIYAMOTO, Hironori TOYODA, Kouhei TAKAHASHI, Masumi NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150090986
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes: a TFT substrate that includes a display area in which pixels are arranged in a matrix; and a color filter substrate that is provided to face the TFT substrate and includes an area transmitting light in a predetermined wavelength range for each of the pixels. Each of the pixels of the TFT substrate includes a pair of electrodes, at least two light emission layers that are arranged between the pair of electrodes, and a charge generation layer that is arranged between the at least two light emission layers, is a layer to generate a pair of positive and negative charges, and has different film thicknesses in accordance with the predetermined wavelength range of the corresponding area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Toshihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20150069361
    Abstract: A substrate on which a plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed is prepared. An organic electroluminescent film 22 is formed with the inclusion of a common layer that continuously covers the plural pixel electrodes. A common electrode is formed on the organic electroluminescent film. The common layer is irradiated with an energy ray above areas between the respective adjacent pixel electrodes with the avoidance of irradiation above the plural pixel electrodes. An electric conductivity of the common layer is reduced above the areas between the respective adjacent pixel electrodes, by irradiation of the energy ray. With this configuration, a current leakage can be prevented between the adjacent pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA, Takeshi OOKAWARA
  • Publication number: 20150054815
    Abstract: The adjustment of a color temperature is made possible in a display panel using a white light-emitting OLED. The white light-emitting OLED includes a light-emitting layer containing light-emitting materials of respective colors of R, G, and B. By changing the current density of a drive current to be supplied to the white light-emitting OLED, light emission of the OLED is adjusted to a color temperature in response to an instruction from a user. A period PD in which the OLED emits light is changed in inverse proportion to a change in drive current so as to maintain emission luminance in one frame for the emission intensity of the OLED changing in response to the drive current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Toshihiro SATO
  • Patent number: 8937430
    Abstract: An EL display device with color filter capable of surpressing color mixture. The EL display device includes: a first substrate having lower electrodes, a pixel separation film that separates the lower electrodes from each other, and an EL layer of white light emission; a second substrate having a black matrix and a color filter; and a sealing layer, in which the following Expression is satisfied. W>2 tan(?m)(HBM+H+HG+HS)?(WS+WBM) where W is a width of an aperture area, WBM is a width of the black matrix, WS is a width of the pixel separation films, HBM is a thickness of the black matrix, H is a thickness of the color filter, HG is a distance between a front surface of the pixel separation film and a color filter rear surface, HS is a height of the pixel separation film, and ?m is a critical angle between the second substrate and an air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20140353642
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes a first light-emitting unit and a second light-emitting unit that are stacked between a cathode and an anode. The first light-emitting unit includes a first electron injection layer and a first light-emitting layer that are stacked. The first electron injection layer is arranged closer to the cathode side than the first light-emitting layer is. The second light-emitting unit includes a second electron injection layer and a second light-emitting layer that are stacked. The second electron injection layer is arranged closer to the cathode side than the second light-emitting layer is. Each of the first electron injection layer and the second electron injection layer includes a compound containing lithium. The number of particles of lithium is from 0.1 mmol/cm3 to 0.86 mmol/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Masato ITO, Toshihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20140217924
    Abstract: In an organic EL display apparatus, a chromaticity change of image display due to deterioration in an OLED is corrected. The organic EL display apparatus includes an EC element layer formed of one kind or a plurality of kinds of electrochromic elements which are disposed on an OLED portion and develop colors. Each of the electrochromic elements has a peak in a transmission spectrum during development of a color in any one of the emission wavelength bands of the pixels corresponding to the plurality of colors. The electrochromic element receives a DC voltage from a driver so as to be driven. Chromaticity of image display is adjusted by controlling a color development intensity of the electrochromic element by using the DC voltage which is applied by the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA
  • Publication number: 20140110735
    Abstract: There is provided an EL display device of a color filter system which obtains sufficient brightness and contrast while making it difficult to generate a color mixture even if pixels become fine. An EL display device 100 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, a circuit layer 2 formed on the first substrate 1, a color selection reflection layer 11 formed in an upper layer of the circuit layer 2, lower electrodes 5 formed in an upper layer of the color selection reflection layer 11, a white light emission EL layer 7 formed in an upper layer of the lower electrodes 5, an upper electrode 8 formed in an upper layer of the EL layer 7, and a sealing layer 9 formed in an upper layer of the upper electrode 8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
  • Publication number: 20140062294
    Abstract: An EL display device with color filter capable of surpressing color mixture. The EL display device includes: a first substrate having lower electrodes, a pixel separation film that separates the lower electrodes from each other, and an EL layer of white light emission; a second substrate having a black matrix and a color filter; and a sealing layer, in which the following Expression is satisfied. W>2 tan(?m)(HBM+H+HG+HS)?(WS+WBM) where W is a width of an aperture area, WBM is a width of the black matrix, WS is a width of the pixel separation films, HBM is a thickness of the black matrix, H is a thickness of the color filter, HG is a distance between a front surface of the pixel separation film and a color filter rear surface, HS is a height of the pixel separation film, and ?m is a critical angle between the second substrate and an air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Toshihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20140027798
    Abstract: Damage of a color filter due to erosion or the like in a process of patterning a light-shielding film to form a black matrix laminated on the color filter of a display device is prevented. Plural color filters are formed on a second substrate correspondingly to pixels. Protection films laminated on upper surfaces of the respective color filters are formed. A light-shielding film is laminated on a surface of the second substrate on which the protection films are formed. The light-shielding film is processed while the protection films are used as damage stoppers, and light-shielding members made of the light-shielding film selectively left along boundaries of the pixels are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 8405308
    Abstract: The strength of the whole OLED is increased by proposing a new method of fixing OLED panels. To address the problem, an OLED element is formed on a substrate, and a sealing substrate of a structure by which the substrate is sealed is fixed to a lower metallic frame via an elastic sheet. Silicon resin is preferably used as the sheet, and use of a sheet having a heat diffusion function based on radiation is more desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd, Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriharu Matsudate, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 8237353
    Abstract: In a top emission type organic EL display device, brightness gradient in a screen is reduced while keeping a screen brightness. A reflection film is formed under a lower electrode and the light from an organic EL layer is emitted through an upper electrode. Light absorption of the upper electrode is larger on the side of a shorter wavelength. When a film thickness of the upper electrode is enlarged in order to reduce the brightness gradient in a screen, the film thicknesses of the upper electrodes for a red pixel and a green pixel are enlarged without enlarging the film thickness of the upper electrode for a blue pixel. This makes it possible to reduce the brightness gradient as well as to suppress the light absorption of the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Masahiro Tanaka, Masaaki Okunaka, Masakazu Gunji
  • Publication number: 20110248626
    Abstract: The strength of the whole OLED is increased by proposing a new method of fixing OLED panels. To address the problem, an OLED element is formed on a substrate, and a sealing substrate of a structure by which the substrate is sealed is fixed to a lower metallic frame via an elastic sheet. Silicon resin is preferably used as the sheet, and use of a sheet having a heat diffusion function based on radiation is more desirable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Noriharu MATSUDATE, Hironori TOYODA
  • Patent number: 7990059
    Abstract: The strength of the whole OLED is increased by proposing a new method of fixing OLED panels. To address the problem, an OLED element is formed on a substrate, and a sealing substrate of a structure by which the substrate is sealed is fixed to a lower metallic frame via an elastic sheet. Silicon resin is preferably used as the sheet, and use of a sheet having a heat diffusion function based on radiation is more desirable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriharu Matsudate, Hironori Toyoda
  • Patent number: 7804241
    Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display device emits light by applying a voltage by an image signal between an upper electrode (23) and a lower electrode which sandwich an organic electro-luminescence layer. The organic electro-luminescence layer comprises an electron transporting layer, a light emitting layer, and a hole transporting layer. The electron transporting layer includes an organic material and cesium, and has a moisture absorbing characteristic. A structure in which the same materials as the electron transporting layer are used and which has a different constituent composition and a greater amount of cesium is used as a desiccant (40) and placed in a region which does not overlap the organic electro-luminescence layer, to effectively remove moisture inside the organic electro-luminescence display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Hajime Murakami, Shinichi Kato, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7786666
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display device with an extended lifetime is provided. When at least a hole transport layer HTR, a light emitting layer LUM, an electron transport layer ETR and an electron injection layer EIN are stacked between one electrode (an anode AND or a cathode CTD) formed on the principal surface of an insulating substrate SUB1 and the other electrode (the cathode CTD or the anode AND) by vapor deposition, the concentration of a plasticizer trapped into the layers in a vapor deposition apparatus is limited to less than or equal to 100 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Okunaka, Masato Ito, Masamitsu Furuie, Hironori Toyoda, Naoyuki Itou
  • Publication number: 20100007272
    Abstract: In a top emission type organic EL display device, brightness gradient in a screen is reduced while keeping a screen brightness. A reflection film is formed under a lower electrode and the light from an organic EL layer is emitted through an upper electrode. Light absorption of the upper electrode is larger on the side of a shorter wavelength. When a film thickness of the upper electrode is enlarged in order to reduce the brightness gradient in a screen, the film thicknesses of the upper electrodes for a red pixel and a green pixel are enlarged without enlarging the film thickness of the upper electrode for a blue pixel. This makes it possible to reduce the brightness gradient as well as to suppress the light absorption of the upper electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Masahiro Tanaka, Masaaki Okunaka, Masakazu Gunji
  • Publication number: 20090108748
    Abstract: An organic electro-luminescence display device emits light by applying a voltage by an image signal between an upper electrode (23) and a lower electrode which sandwich an organic electro-luminescence layer. The organic electro-luminescence layer comprises an electron transporting layer, a light emitting layer, and a hole transporting layer. The electron transporting layer includes an organic material and cesium, and has a moisture absorbing characteristic. A structure in which the same materials as the electron transporting layer are used and which has a different constituent composition and a greater amount of cesium is used as a desiccant (40) and placed in a region which does not overlap the organic electro-luminescence layer, to effectively remove moisture inside the organic electro-luminescence display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Hajime Murakami, Shinichi Kato, Masahiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7479953
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can obviate the possibility of sticking as a whole of a display area even when the brightness is relatively changed on a display area. In a display device, a plurality of pixels are arranged in the inside of a display area and the respective pixels include electrodes to which signals are independently inputted and a common second electrode to which a reference signal with respect to the signals is inputted, the current from the cathode electrode in the first and second display areas are respectively measured, and when the electric current of the first display area is larger than the electric current of the second display area, a potential difference between the cathode electrode of the first display area and the anode electrode of the first display area is made small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Shinichi Kato, Masamitsu Furuie, Masaaki Okunaka, Naoki Tokuda
  • Patent number: 7474046
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can suppress mura or irregularities of brightness of a display. To be more specific, in a display device including the plurality of pixels which are arranged in a matrix array and are respectively provided with light emitting layers, a power source is supplied to the respective light emitting layers of the respective pixels which are arranged in parallel in one direction among the respective pixels through a common power source signal line, wherein the respective pixels allow the light emitting layers thereof to have different thicknesses from each other in a state that the thickness of the light emitting layer at an upstream side of a flow of an electric current along the power source signal line is larger than the thickness of the light emitting layer at a downstream side of the flow of the electric current along the power source signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masamitsu Furuie, Hironori Toyoda, Masaaki Okunaka