Patents by Inventor Jin Hirosawa

Jin Hirosawa 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: 9508295
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first pixel electrode disposed on a first color pixel of red, a second pixel electrode disposed on a second color pixel of green, a third pixel electrode disposed on a third color pixel of blue, and a fourth pixel electrode disposed on a fourth color pixel of white, a second substrate including a common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a top voltage applied to the fourth color pixel to correspond to a maximum gradation value is set to be less than a top voltage applied to each of the first color pixel and the second color pixel to correspond to respective maximum gradation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Tomoko Kozuka, Jin Hirosawa, Yuuki Morita, Hiroyuki Kimura, Kazuya Arima, Masaaki Kabe, Yoshihiro Watanabe
  • Patent number: 9500894
    Abstract: A first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction, a first interlayer insulating film covering the gate line, a first common electrode formed on the first interlayer insulating film extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second interlayer insulating film covering the first common electrode, a source line extending in the second direction, and a third interlayer insulating film covering the source line. A pixel electrode includes a main pixel electrode extending in the second direction on the third interlayer insulating film. A second common electrode includes a second main common electrode extending in the second direction on the third interlayer insulating film and facing the source line. The second common electrode is set to the same potential as the first common electrode. A first alignment film covers the pixel electrode and the second common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Publication number: 20160327829
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode and an insulating layer arranged so as to cover an edge of the first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode and a second slit from which the second electrode is removed, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first slits extending inwardly from the edge of the first electrode. The insulating layer and the plurality of first slits are arranged such that a position of an end of the insulating layer and a position of a tip to which the first slit extends are apart from each other in a region between the edge of the first electrode and the second slit in a direction in which the first slit extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Arihiro TAKEDA, Jin HIROSAWA
  • Patent number: 9470938
    Abstract: A first substrate includes a gate line extending in a first direction and a source line extending in a second direction. A first sub-common electrode is formed on the gate line. A first main-common electrode is formed along the source line so as to be connected with the first sub-common electrode. A second main-common electrode is formed extending in the second direction and facing the source line. The second main-common electrode is set to the same potential as the first main-common electrode. A second substrate includes a third main-common electrode extending in the second direction so as to face the second main-common electrode. The third main-common electrode is set to the same potential as the second main-common electrode. A second sub-common electrode is connected with the third main common electrode. The second sub-common electrode is formed so as to face the first sub-common electrode on the gate line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Morita, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9459507
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first wiring line, a second wiring line located on a first interlayer insulation film, a pixel electrode located on the first interlayer insulation film and including a main pixel electrode and a first sub-pixel electrode, a first common electrode located on a second interlayer insulation film and including a first main common electrode opposed to the second wiring line and a first sub-common electrode opposed to the first wiring line and the first sub-pixel electrode, a second substrate including a second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Publication number: 20160274422
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line and an auxiliary capacitance line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, and a pixel electrode having a main pixel electrode arranged on the auxiliary capacitance line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a common electrode having a main common electrode arranged above the gate line and extending in the first direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate having liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal molecules are initially aligned in the first direction in a splay alignment state between the first substrate and the second substrate in a state where electric field is not formed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
    Inventor: Jin HIROSAWA
  • Patent number: 9448435
    Abstract: In a first substrate, a reflective first common electrode is located on the first and second source lines and extending toward a region between the first and second source lines so as to form an aperture portion. A transmissive pixel electrode is arranged in a pixel defined by the first gate line, the second gate line, the first source line and the second source line and electrically connected with a switching element. The transmissive pixel electrode includes a first end extending along the first and second source lines so as to face the first common electrode. A second substrate includes a second common electrode arranged facing the pixel electrode and set to the same potential as the first common electrode. A liquid crystal layer is held between vertical alignment films formed on the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9429783
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode and an insulating layer arranged so as to cover an edge of the first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode and a second slit from which the second electrode is removed, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first slits extending inwardly from the edge of the first electrode. The insulating layer and the plurality of first slits are arranged such that a position of an end of the insulating layer and a position of a tip to which the first slit extends are apart from each other in a region between the edge of the first electrode and the second slit in a direction in which the first slit extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9424786
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including gate lines and a storage capacitance line, a first source line and a second source line, a main pixel electrode which has a strip shape, a sub-pixel electrode which is continuous with the main pixel electrode and has a strip shape extending toward the first source line and the second source line, and a first alignment film, a second substrate including second main common electrodes extending on both sides of the main pixel electrode, second sub-common electrodes which are continuous with the second main common electrodes and extend on both sides of the sub-pixel electrode, and a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda, Hirokazu Morimoto
  • Publication number: 20160216576
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a gate line, a source line, a first common electrode opposed to the gate line and the source line, an interlayer insulating film covering the first common electrode, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode and a sub-pixel electrode, the pixel electrode formed on the interlayer insulating film, a second common electrode formed on the interlayer insulating film. The second common electrode includes a second main common electrode which has intermittence at a position adjacent to the sub-pixel electrode, and a second sub-common electrode which has intermittence at a position adjacent to the main pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kayoko MIYAZAKI, Jin HIROSAWA
  • Patent number: 9395586
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. In the first substrate, gate lines extend in a first direction, and a first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode having a first belt-like main electrode is arranged approximately in a central portion between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the second direction. A first belt-like sub-electrode covers the gate line between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a counter electrode having a second main electrode arranged on the first and second source lines and extending in the second direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda, Nobuko Fukuoka, Yusuke Morita, Kazuya Daishi
  • Patent number: 9372372
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a gate line and an auxiliary capacitance line extending in a first direction, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction, and a pixel electrode having a main pixel electrode arranged on the auxiliary capacitance line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a common electrode having a main common electrode arranged above the gate line and extending in the first direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate having liquid crystal molecules. The liquid crystal molecules are initially aligned in the first direction in a splay alignment state between the first substrate and the second substrate in a state where electric field is not formed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9341898
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a cross-shaped pixel electrode which includes a main pixel electrode and a sub-pixel electrode, and a second substrate including a common electrode which includes main common electrodes and sub-common electrodes. A first horizontal inter-electrode distance between the main pixel electrode and the main common electrode is less than a second horizontal inter-electrode distance between the sub-pixel electrode and the sub-common electrode and is greater than a vertical inter-electrode distance between the main pixel electrode and the main common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda
  • Patent number: 9341900
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a plurality of first signal lines disposed with a first pitch along a second direction, a plurality of second signal lines disposed with a second pitch along a first direction, and a first electrode including an n-number of first main electrodes (n is an integer of 2 or more), a second substrate including a second electrode including a plurality of second main electrodes disposed with a third pitch along the first direction, wherein an n-number of times the third pitch is substantially equal to the second pitch, and any one of the second main electrodes is located above each of the second signal lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Arihiro Takeda, Hirokazu Morimoto, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9316872
    Abstract: An array substrate includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film covering the semiconductor layer, a gate line extending in a first direction on the first insulating film, a second insulating film covering the gate line, a source line extending in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction on the second insulating film. A contact portion is formed on the second insulating film. The contact portion contacts with the semiconductor layer. A third insulating film covers the source line and exposing the contact portion and the second insulating film in a circumference of the contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9304343
    Abstract: A first substrate includes first and second gate lines extending in a first direction. First, second, and third source lines respectively extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction and crossing the first and second gate lines. A first pixel electrode is arranged adjoining the first source line and extends in the second direction. A second pixel electrode is arranged adjoining the third source line and extends in the second direction. A second substrate includes a common electrode arranged above the second source line extending in the second direction between the first source line and the third source line. The first and second source lines, the first and second gate lines, and the first pixel electrode form a first pixel, and the second and the third source lines, the first and second gate lines, and the second pixel electrode form a second pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Kitani, Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9298049
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a first substrate is provided with first and second main pixel electrodes electrically connected each other extending along a first direction, respectively. A second substrate includes first to third main common electrodes electrically connected each other extending along the first direction, respectively. The first main pixel electrode is arranged between the first and second main common electrodes, and the second main pixel electrode is arranged between the second and third main common electrodes. Four inter-electrode distances are formed. One of the four inter-electrode distances is set to an optimal inter-electrode distance, and one of the four inter-electrode distances is different from at least one of the other three inter-electrode distances. Herein, the optimal inter-electrode distance is defined as follows: in a range of voltage which is applied between the electrodes, more than 90% of a peak transmissivity is obtained by the optimal inter-electrode distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hitomi Hasegawa, Jin Hirosawa, Arihiro Takeda, Nobuko Fukuoka, Yusuke Morita
  • Publication number: 20160070149
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer including a first extension portion and a second extension portion, a gate line, a first common electrode opposed to at least the second extension portion, a source line extending above the second extension portion, a pixel electrode including a main pixel electrode, a second common electrode including a second main common electrode opposed to the source line, and a first alignment film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin HIROSAWA
  • Publication number: 20160062202
    Abstract: A first interlayer insulating film is arranged on a gate line and a source line. A first common electrode includes a first sub-common electrode extending in a first direction so as to face the gate line and a first main common electrode extending in a second direction so as to face the source line on the first interlayer insulating film. The first common electrode has a slit extending in the second direction. A second interlayer insulating film covers the first common electrode. A main pixel electrode extends in the second direction on the second interlayer insulating film so as to face the slit. A second common electrode includes a second sub-common electrode extending on the second interlayer insulating film so as to face the first sub-common electrode and a second main common electrode facing the first main common electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa
  • Patent number: 9268179
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a gate line, a source line, a switching element, a first pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element, an interlayer insulation film covering the first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode which is located on the interlayer insulation film, is electrically connected to the first pixel electrode and includes a main pixel electrode, and a first main common electrode extending along the source line, the first pixel electrode including an edge portion which is located closer to the source line and the first main common electrode than to the main pixel electrode, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Jin Hirosawa