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: 20080252223
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL display device with high detection accuracy which can enhance both of light emission efficiency and light reception efficiency. In an organic EL display device which includes organic thin film elements, a power source line is connected to the organic thin film elements via drive TFTs, a signal line is connected to a gate of the drive TFT to supply a potential corresponding to a gray scale signal, a switch is provided for connecting the signal line and the organic thin film element, and the switch is controlled to allow an electric current which is obtained by photoelectric conversion with the organic thin film element to flow in the signal line and the organic thin film element during a period in which a gray scale signal is not applied to the signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Naruhiko Kasai, Hajime Murakami
  • Publication number: 20070200497
    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: February 27, 2007
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Inventors: Noriharu Matsudate, Hironori Toyoda
  • Publication number: 20070069640
    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: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventors: Masaaki Okunaka, Masato Ito, Masamitsu Furuie, Hironori Toyoda, Naoyuki Itou
  • Publication number: 20060114176
    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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Masamitsu Furuie, Hironori Toyoda, Masaaki Okunaka
  • Publication number: 20060050029
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which can obviates the possibility of occurrence 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 first electrodes to which signals are independently inputted and a common second electrode to which a signal which becomes the reference with respect to the signals is inputted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2005
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Hironori Toyoda, Shinichi Kato, Masamitsu Furuie, Masaaki Okunaka, Naoki Tokuda