Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Sagawa

Hiroshi Sagawa 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: 8502756
    Abstract: An image display unit comprises a display area including pixels, and an imaging unit disposed at its rear side behind the display area. Light transmissive sections are located within the display area and correspond to the pixels. The light transmissive sections are configured to separately receive light incident upon the image display unit, and pass the received light to the imaging unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuo Nakamura, Katsuhide Uchino, Jiro Yamada, Ken Tamayama, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 8497504
    Abstract: A thin film transistor with which oxygen is easily supplied to an oxide semiconductor layer and favorable transistor characteristics are able to be restored and a display unit including the same. The thin film transistor includes, sequentially over a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulting film, an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, and a channel protective layer covering the channel region A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the oxide semiconductor layer located on both sides of the channel protective layer, and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has an aperture to expose the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Arai, Narihiro Morosawa, Kazuhiko Tokunaga, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Patent number: 8399892
    Abstract: A display device includes, on a substrate, light emitting elements each formed by sequentially stacking a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode layer and arranged in first and second directions which cross each other, a drive circuit including drive elements that drive light emitting elements, and a wiring extending in the first direction, and an insulating layer disposed in a gap region sandwiched by the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction and having a recess or a projection. The wiring is disposed in an overlap region overlapping with the recess or the projection in the insulating layer in a thickness direction, in the gap region, and the second electrode layers in the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction are separated from each other by the recess or the projection in the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20130056714
    Abstract: An organic EL display includes: a plurality of first electrodes provided in a display region on a drive substrate, the plurality of first electrodes each including a laminated film having two or more layers; an organic layer provided on the plurality of first electrodes and including a light emitting layer; an electrode pad provided in a peripheral region around the display region; and a second electrode provided on the organic layer as well as the electrode pad, wherein the laminated film includes a first conductive film functioning as a reflective film, and a second conductive film provided below the first conductive film, and having a reflectance lower than that of the first conductive film, and the electrode pad corresponds to a part of the laminated film, and includes a conductive film made of a material same as that of the second conductive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiji Hasegawa, Atsuya Makita, Jiro Yamada, Seiichi Yokoyama, Hidetoshi Noda, Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 8389315
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The method includes forming a circuit part; forming a planarization insulating layer on the circuit part; forming a separator in an area outside a display area in which a plurality of light emitting elements are formed by removing the planarization insulating layer at a position surrounding the display area; forming an electrically-conductive layer including a plurality of first electrodes and an auxiliary interconnect on the planarization insulating layer; forming an aperture-defining insulating layer that insulates the first electrodes from each other and has an aperture through which part of the first electrode is exposed; and forming a plurality of light emitting elements by stacking the first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode common to the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Tsuji, Toshiki Matsumoto, Hirofumi Fujioka, Mitsuru Asano, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Patent number: 8368825
    Abstract: A display device includes an anode electrode provided for each pixel, an opening insulation film which covers the periphery of the anode electrode and which defines an pixel opening, and a storage capacitor disposed below the anode electrode through a planarizing insulation film, having a function to store charge for driving a pixel, and including capacitor electrodes wider than the pixel opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Yuuki Seo, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20120320029
    Abstract: An image display device and method of driving an image display device with alternative repeating of an emission period during which the light emitting element is made to emit light and a non-emission period during which light emission of the light emitting element is stopped. The terminal voltage of a storage capacitor is set to the voltage of a signal line, whereby light emission luminance of the light emitting element in a next emission period is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Handa, Yuuki Seo, Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20120244775
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. The method includes forming a circuit part; forming a planarization insulating layer on the circuit part; forming a separator in an area outside a display area in which a plurality of light emitting elements are formed by removing the planarization insulating layer at a position surrounding the display area; forming an electrically-conductive layer including a plurality of first electrodes and an auxiliary interconnect on the planarization insulating layer; forming an aperture-defining insulating layer that insulates the first electrodes from each other and has an aperture through which part of the first electrode is exposed; and forming a plurality of light emitting elements by stacking the first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode common to the plurality of light emitting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Tsuji, Toshiki Matsumoto, Hirofumi Fujioka, Mitsuru Asano, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Patent number: 8269697
    Abstract: The present invention disposes a switch transistor between a driving transistor and a light emitting element, and sets the switch transistor in an off state during a non-emission period. Thereby, a variation in threshold voltage of the driving transistor is corrected while destruction of the light emitting element due to a reverse bias is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoaki Handa, Yuuki Seo, Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 8269217
    Abstract: A thin film transistor with which oxygen is easily supplied to an oxide semiconductor layer and favorable transistor characteristics are able to be restored and a display unit including the same are provided. The thin film transistor includes sequentially over a substrate a gate electrode, a gate insulting film, an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, and a channel protective layer covering the channel region A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the oxide semiconductor layer located on both sides of the channel protective layer, and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has an aperture to expose the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Arai, Narihiro Morosawa, Kazuhiko Tokunaga, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Patent number: 8212258
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display device, including: a substrate; a circuit part configured to include a drive element formed over the substrate; a planarization insulating layer configured to be formed on the circuit part; an electrically-conductive layer configured to be formed on the planarization insulating layer and include a plurality of first electrodes and an auxiliary interconnect; an aperture-defining insulating layer configured to insulate the plurality of first electrodes from each other and have an aperture through which part of the first electrode is exposed; a plurality of light emitting elements configured to be formed by stacking the first electrode, an organic layer including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode in that order; and a separator configured to be formed by removing the planarization insulating layer at a position surrounding a display area in which the plurality of light emitting elements connected to the drive element are disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko Tsuji, Toshiki Matsumoto, Hirofumi Fujioka, Mitsuru Asano, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Patent number: 8184075
    Abstract: An active matrix display device includes a driving section provided on a substrate, an insulating film stacked on the substrate, and light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix on the insulating film, and each of the light-emitting elements includes an light-emitting layer between its upper and lower electrodes, the active matrix display device being driven by the driving section provided for each of the light-emitting elements, the active matrix display device also including a first wiring required to cause the light-emitting element to emit light, and a second wiring disposed in the underlying layer of the first wiring via the insulating film, the second wiring also required to cause the light-emitting element to emit light, wherein the first or second wiring is branched into a plurality of wirings at the intersection between the two wirings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Takayuki Taneda, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita, Katsuhide Uchino, Yukihito Iida, Mitsuru Asano
  • Publication number: 20120043565
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light-emission elements arranged, on the substrate, in a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other, each of the light-emission elements having a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a luminous layer, and a second electrode layer which are laminated in that order; and a separation section disposed, on the substrate, between the light-emission elements adjacent to each other in the first direction, the separation section having two or more pairs of steps. The first electrode layers in the light-emission elements are separated from each other, and the organic layers as well as the second electrode layers in the light-emission elements adjacent to each other in the first direction are separated from each other by the steps included in the separation section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20120043548
    Abstract: A thin film transistor with which oxygen is easily supplied to an oxide semiconductor layer and favorable transistor characteristics are able to be restored and a display unit including the same. The thin film transistor includes, sequentially over a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate insulting film, an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, and a channel protective layer covering the channel region A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the oxide semiconductor layer located on both sides of the channel protective layer, and at least one of the source electrode and the drain electrode has an aperture to expose the oxide semiconductor layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiaki Arai, Narihiro Morosawa, Kazuhiko Tokunaga, Hiroshi Sagawa, Kiwamu Miura
  • Publication number: 20120001183
    Abstract: A method of producing a display device includes the steps of forming gate electrodes on a substrate so that an arrangement of a source and a drain, in a pixel row direction, of a thin-film transistor formed in each of pixels on the substrate is reversed every pixel row; forming a gate insulating film and an amorphous semiconductor thin film on the substrate in that order so as to cover the gate electrodes; crystallizing the semiconductor thin film by irradiating the semiconductor thin film with an energy beam so that a scanning direction of the energy beam is the same with respect to the arrangement of the source and the drain in the pixel row direction; and forming a light-emitting element connected to the thin-film transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Naobumi Toyomura
  • Publication number: 20110316007
    Abstract: A display device includes, on a substrate, light emitting elements each formed by sequentially stacking a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode layer and arranged in first and second directions which cross each other, a drive circuit including drive elements that drive light emitting elements, and a wiring extending in the first direction, and an insulating layer disposed in a gap region sandwiched by the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction and having a recess or a projection. The wiring is disposed in an overlap region overlapping with the recess or the projection in the insulating layer in a thickness direction, in the gap region, and the second electrode layers in the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction are separated from each other by the recess or the projection in the insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 29, 2011
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Publication number: 20110310069
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a display device for suppressing reflected light includes a driving circuit and a display region which includes a plurality of pixels. In one example embodiment, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel having a first light emitting element which includes a first light emitting portion having a first layer surface. In one example embodiment, first pixel includes a second light emitting element which includes a second light emitting portion having a second, different layer surface. In one example embodiment, the first pixel includes a third light emitting element which includes a third light emitting portion having a third, different layer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi SAGAWA
  • Patent number: 8034672
    Abstract: A method of producing a display device includes the steps of forming gate electrodes on a substrate so that an arrangement of a source and a drain, in a pixel row direction, of a thin-film transistor formed in each of pixels on the substrate is reversed every pixel row; forming a gate insulating film and an amorphous semiconductor thin film on the substrate in that order so as to cover the gate electrodes; crystallizing the semiconductor thin film by irradiating the semiconductor thin film with an energy beam so that a scanning direction of the energy beam is the same with respect to the arrangement of the source and the drain in the pixel row direction; and forming a light-emitting element connected to the thin-film transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Naobumi Toyomura
  • Patent number: 8013513
    Abstract: An active matrix display device includes a driving section provided on a substrate, an insulating film stacked on the driving section, and light-emitting elements arranged in a matrix on the insulating film, each of the light-emitting elements having a light-emitting layer between upper and lower electrodes, the active matrix display device being driven by the driving section provided for each of the light-emitting elements, the active matrix display device also includes an auxiliary wiring provided on the same layer as the lower electrode of the light-emitting element and adapted to adjust the electrical resistance of the upper electrode, and drive wirings disposed in the underlying layer of the auxiliary wiring via the insulating film and adapted to drive the light-emitting element, wherein the auxiliary or drive wiring is routed in a roundabout manner where the auxiliary and drive wirings overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 7944141
    Abstract: An organic electric field light-emitting display device includes: a plurality of pixel circuits, each disposed at one of the intersections between a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of scan lines, each of the pixel circuits including an organic electric field light-emitting element; a power auxiliary circumferential line electrically connected to one of two electrodes adapted to apply an electric field to the organic electric field light-emitting element, the power auxiliary circumferential line being disposed in a ring-like arrangement around the pixel arrangement region; and a plurality of dummy wirings formed on the underlying layer of the power auxiliary circumferential line between the intersections between either one of the plurality of signal lines and the plurality of scan lines and the power auxiliary circumferential line, the plurality of dummy wirings being insulated and isolated from the signal or scan line in proximity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino