Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Hayashi

Hirotaka Hayashi 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: 10318036
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20190164504
    Abstract: A display device comprising: a display portion that is provided on a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate and that comprises pixel capacitors and pixel transistors included in a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of scan lines each coupled to some of the pixels arranged in the first direction, and a plurality of video signal lines each coupled to some of the pixels arranged in the second direction; and a driver that is provided on the TFT substrate and that is configured to supply video signals to the video signal lines and to control the pixel transistors to be on and off through the scan lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirotaka HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190129270
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first basement, an organic insulating film above the first basement and including a first upper surface and a first end portion, an inorganic insulating film provided from the first upper surface to the first basement and covering the first upper surface and the first end portion, pixel electrodes provided in the display portion, a common electrode provided to be opposed to the pixel electrodes, an electrophoretic element provided between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, and a sealant provided on the inorganic insulating film and sealing at least the electrophoretic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koji ISHIZAKI, Yoshitaka OZEKI, Takahiro TAKEUCHI, Yasuhiro KANAYA, Hirotaka HAYASHI, Akihiro OGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190130854
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first main pixel including first to third sub-pixels, a second main pixel including fourth to sixth sub-pixels, a display driver which produces video signals to be written to the respective sub-pixels of the first and second main pixels and supplies the video signals to the respective sub-pixels via signal lines, any one of the first to third sub-pixels and any one of the fourth to sixth sub-pixels sharing one of the signal lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya TAMAKI, Tsutomu Harada, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10210825
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first main pixel including first to third sub-pixels, a second main pixel including fourth to sixth sub-pixels, a display driver which produces video signals to be written to the respective sub-pixels of the first and second main pixels and supplies the video signals to the respective sub-pixels via signal lines, any one of the first to third sub-pixels and any one of the fourth to sixth sub-pixels sharing one of the signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaya Tamaki, Tsutomu Harada, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20190004658
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro AOKI, Takashi NAKAMURA, Masahiro TADA, Hirotaka HAYASHI, Makoto SHIBUSAWA, Yutaka UMEDA, Miyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20180321539
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a connecting material. The first substrate includes a first edge and a second edge in the first direction, a third edge in a second direction, a first round corner between the first edge and the third edge, a first electrode at the third edge, a pad electrode on a first edge side, and a connection line which electrically connects the first electrode and the pad electrode. The second substrate includes a basement having a through hole, and a second electrode around the through hole. The connecting material electrically connects the first electrode and the second electrode via the through hole. The connection line has a first portion which is rounded at the first round corner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Gen KOIDE, Hirotaka HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10101839
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180164935
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20180107041
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate; and a circuit layer arranged on the first substrate and comprising a first scanning signal line driving circuit arranged on the side of a first side of the first substrate, a second scanning signal line driving circuit arranged on the side of a second side, a third scanning signal line driving circuit arranged between the first scanning signal line driving circuit and the second scanning signal line driving circuit, and each of a plurality of pixel circuits including a first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit, the first pixel circuit being arranged in a region between the first scanning signal line driving circuit and the third scanning signal line driving circuit, and the second pixel circuit being arranged in a region between the third scanning signal line driving circuit and the second scanning signal line driving circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: Hirotaka HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 9921676
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9915845
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a first signal line, a second signal line, a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, an insulating film, a first contact hole, a second contact hole, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode. The second contact hole is located opposite to the first contact hole in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Mochizuki, Hirotaka Hayashi, Hiroyuki Kimura
  • Patent number: 9914280
    Abstract: According to an aspect of the invention, a binding device includes a first rotary member including a first serrated portion on its circumferential surface, a second rotary member including, on its circumferential surface, a second serrated portion to be engaged with the first serrated portion at an engaging position and configured to perform a binding process by rotating together with the first rotary member with a bundle of sheets pinched therebetween to form serrations in the sheet bundle in thickness direction and bring the sheets into engagement with each other while relatively moving the sheet bundle in a predetermined moving direction, and a clamping unit configured to, when the binding process is performed, clamp the sheet bundle at a clamping position upstream of the engaging position to apply a predetermined pulling force acting in a direction opposite to the moving direction to the sheet bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
    Inventors: Ikumi Takashima, Akihiro Tsuno, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9891748
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes plural display pixels arranged in a matrix, plural gate lines, plural source lines and a control circuit which controls by applying intermittent driving and a column-inversion drive scheme, an operation in which drive signals are supplied to the gate lines and the source lines, and an image signal is supplied to the display pixels and held thereby, wherein the display pixels each include a liquid crystal in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is changed by a voltage between pixel electrodes and a common electrode, and the control circuit applies in a signal stop period in the intermittent driving, a voltage corresponding to a gradation higher than or equal to white gradation to the source lines in a case where a display mode of the liquid crystal is a normally-black mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Takanori Tsunashima, Hirotaka Hayashi, Kazuhide Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 9858871
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel including a first pixel, a second pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a column direction, a third pixel neighboring to the first pixel in a row direction, and a fourth pixel neighboring to the second pixel in the row direction, a scanning line extending in the row direction and electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and first to fourth signal lines extending in the column direction and provided at intervals therebetween in the row direction, and the first to fourth signal lines are electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and video signal potentials for inverted drive applied to the first and second signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other, and those to the third and fourth signal lines are inverted in polarity with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takanori Tsunashima, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9857904
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro Aoki, Takashi Nakamura, Masahiro Tada, Hirotaka Hayashi, Makoto Shibusawa, Yutaka Umeda, Miyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 9835900
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a display area including a plurality of pixels, and a light-shielding layer. Each of the pixels includes first and second pixel electrodes having have different pixel areas, a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, a first capacitance electrode connected to the first semiconductor element and forming a first auxiliary capacitance, and a second capacitance electrode connected to the second semiconductor element, forming a second auxiliary capacitance, and having an electrode area different from that of the first capacitance electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Mochizuki, Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9753337
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel includes a first pixel including a first pixel electrode, a second pixel including a second pixel electrode, a third pixel including a third pixel electrode, and a fourth pixel including a fourth pixel electrode, a scanning line electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, and first to fourth signal lines extending in the column direction and disposed at intervals in the row direction, the first to fourth signal lines electrically connected to the first to fourth pixels, respectively, wherein the first to fourth pixel electrodes are light reflective, and the scanning line is sequentially drawn into each pixel area of the first to fourth pixels in a manner that an entire width of the scanning line is contained within each pixel area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9696577
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a reflective type liquid crystal display device provided can suppress light leakage into a thin film transistor due to entry of extraneous light. An array substrate includes a glass substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a metal film. The plurality of thin film transistors are provided to the glass substrate. The plurality of pixel electrodes are spaced apart from each other and driven by the thin film transistors. The plurality of pixel electrodes reflect extraneous light entering the reflective type display device from a counter substrate side. The metal film is provided between a gap between the pixel electrodes and each of the thin film transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Muneharu Akiyoshi, Kisako Ninomiya, Yasushi Kawata, Hirotaka Hayashi, Arichika Ishida
  • Publication number: 20170153513
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a unit pixel including first to fourth sub-pixels exhibiting different colors, each of the first to fourth sub-pixels includes first to third segments for displaying 3-bit gradation, the first segment being a rectangular region including first to fourth sides, the second segment being an L-letter region located on a side closer to a geometric center of the unit pixel than the first segment and formed along the first and second sides which intersect each other, the third segment being an L-letter region located on a side farther from the geometric center than the first segment and formed along the third and fourth sides which intersect each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Masaya TAMAKI, Hirotaka HAYASHI