Patents by Inventor Jiro Yamada

Jiro Yamada 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: 20190326537
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic EL display panel having pixels arranged in matrix includes a substrate, pixel electrodes disposed on the substrate for each of the pixels, insulating layers disposed so as to cover each upper part of the pixel electrodes and having not less than three slit-shaped openings extending and arranged in a column direction, partition walls extending in the column direction and partitioning the pixel electrodes in a row direction, organic functional layers disposed on the pixel electrodes and including organic luminous layers configured to cause electroluminescence in each of the openings, and light transmissive counter electrodes disposed on upper parts of the organic functional layers. Levels of top faces of the partition walls are higher than that of the insulating layers. Row-direction widths of openings adjacent to the partition walls in the row direction are larger than row-direction widths of openings not adjacent to the partition walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: HIDEKI KOBAYASHI, JIRO YAMADA, KENICHI NENDAI, NORITERU MAEDA, KENTA FUKUOKA
  • Publication number: 20190318688
    Abstract: A display unit includes a display panel, a photochromic layer, and an ultraviolet absorption layer. The photochromic layer is configured to be colored by ultraviolet light and be decolored or color-faded by visible light. The display panel includes an image display surface with a plurality of pixels. The pixels are provided below the image display surface and each include an organic light-emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Masahiko KONDO, Jiro YAMADA, Atsuhito MURAI, Yasuhiro TERAI, Noriteru MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190312235
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element includes, in order, a substrate, a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, a second electrode layer, a first refractive index layer, and a second refractive index layer. The first refractive index layer and the second refractive index layer are in contact with each other at an interface. The light-emitting layer has a light-emitting region opposed to the first electrode layer. The interface has a recess opposed to the light-emitting region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: KENTA FUKUOKA, JIRO YAMADA, HIDEKI KOBAYASHI, KENICHI NENDAI, AKIFUMI OKIGAWA
  • Patent number: 10439006
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus configured to control a display section of a display unit. There is included a pixel in the display section including a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels including a single first electrode, a single second electrode provided along a laminating direction of the first electrode, and a light-emitting layer inserted between the first electrode and the second electrode. One or more of the plurality of sub-pixels have a plurality of window openings that include at least two or more window openings different in one or more of shape, size, and orientation from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiichiro Jinta, Jiro Yamada, Shuji Kudo, Shigeyuki Matsunami
  • Publication number: 20190229163
    Abstract: A display unit includes multiple pixels, a first electrode, a partition wall, a light emission layer, and a second electrode. The multiple pixels each have a light emission region and a non-light emission region along a first direction. The first electrode is provided in the light emission region in each of the multiple pixels. The partition wall is provided between each two of the pixels that are adjacent to each other in a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The light emission layer covers the first electrode and is provided in the light emission region and the non-light emission region in a continuous manner. The second electrode faces the first electrode across the light emission layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Atsuhito MURAI, Jiro YAMADA, Yasuhiro TERAI, Masahiko KONDO, Noriteru MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190228711
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel and a driving circuit. The display panel includes signal lines extending in a column direction, scanning lines extending in a row direction, and lead-out lines extending in the column direction. Each of the lead-out lines intersects with corresponding one of the scanning lines at an intersection and is electrically coupled to the corresponding one of the scanning lines at a node. The node is disposed at the intersection or in a region surrounding the intersection. The driving circuit supplies corresponding one of the signal lines with a signal pulse corresponding to an image signal, and supplies corresponding one of the lead-out lines with a selection pulse having a peak value based on a distance from one end of the corresponding one of the lead-out lines to the corresponding node, after increasing the peak value with an increase in the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Atsuhito MURAI, Jiro YAMADA, Yasuhiro TERAI, Masahiko KONDO, Noriteru MAEDA
  • Publication number: 20190214602
    Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of pixels and a first insulating film. The plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix in a first direction and a second direction. The first insulating film is provided between adjacent pixels of the pixels, and has first openings in light-emitting regions of the respective pixels. The first insulating film has, between pixels adjacent in the second direction of the pixels, a second opening extending in the first direction, and a remaining part inside the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuma TERAMOTO(deceased), Kenichi NENDAI, Jiro YAMADA, Hideki KOBAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10347697
    Abstract: A display unit includes a plurality of light emitting devices, each of the light emitting devices including a function layer including at least an organic layer is sandwiched between a first electrode and a second electrode, and which have a resonator structure for resonating light by using a space between the first electrode and the second electrode as a resonant section and extracting the light through the second electrode are arranged on a substrate, wherein in the respective light emitting devices, the organic layer is made of an identical layer, and a distance of the resonant section between the first electrode and the second electrode is set to a plurality of different values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mitsuhiro Kashiwabara, Jiro Yamada, Seiichi Yokoyama, Kohji Hanawa
  • Publication number: 20190206957
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and includes: a substrate; pixel electrode layers that are arranged on the substrate in the matrix; an insulating layer that is provided above the substrate and the pixel electrode layers, and has elongated openings and a grooved portion for each of the pixels, the openings extending in a column direction and being arranged in a row direction, the grooved portion having an upper opening and a bottom and being communicated with at least one of the openings in plan view; organic functional layers that are provided above the pixel electrode layers, and include light emitting layers in which organic electroluminescence occurs in the openings; and a light-transmissive counter electrode layer that is provided above the organic functional layers. Cross-sectional profiles of the openings taken along the row direction are uniform in the column direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Jiro YAMADA, Kazuma TERAMOTO(deceased), Kenichi NENDAI, Kaoru ABE, Hideki KOBAYASHI, Hirotaka NANNO
  • Publication number: 20190206287
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The pixels each include a lower layer, an inner insulating layer, an application-type functional layer, and an upper electrode that are layered in this order. The lower layer includes a lower electrode. The functional layer includes a light-emitting layer. The inner insulating layer has one or more openings in which the lower layer is exposed. The openings each have a width increasing toward the upper electrode and have a slope toward a periphery of the pixel. In plan view, the openings are constituted from a plurality of elongated opening pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Hideki KOBAYASHI, Jiro YAMADA, Kaoru ABE, Kazuma TERAMOTO(deceased), Kenichi NENDAI
  • Publication number: 20190189715
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns includes: a substrate; pixel electrode layers that are made of a light-reflective material and are arranged on the substrate in the matrix; an insulating layer that is provided above the substrate and the pixel electrode layers; organic functional layers that are provided above the pixel electrode layers; and a light-transmissive counter electrode layer that is provided above the organic functional layers, wherein the insulating layer has a first opening and second openings for each of the pixel electrode layers, the first opening being elongated in a column direction, the second openings each being shorter than the first opening in the column direction and being lined up adjacent to the first opening, and the organic functional layers include light-emitting layers in which organic electroluminescence occurs in the first opening and the second openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kenichi NENDAI, Jiro YAMADA, Hideki KOBAYASHI, Kazuma TERAMOTO(deceased), Kaoru ABE
  • Publication number: 20190181374
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Jiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20190148675
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the substrate further includes a plurality of first members configured to diffuse light emitted from at least one of the light emitting devices, and a second member that is positioned between the first members, wherein the second member includes a light absorbing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KUDO, Jiro YAMADA, Seiichiro JINTA, Shigeyuki MATSUNAMI
  • Patent number: 10249841
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Joled Inc.
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Jiro Yamada
  • Patent number: 10243170
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the substrate further includes a plurality of first members configured to diffuse light emitted from at least one of the light emitting devices, and a second member that is positioned between the first members, wherein the second member includes a light absorbing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuyuki Kudo, Jiro Yamada, Seiichiro Jinta, Shigeyuki Matsunami
  • Publication number: 20190074471
    Abstract: A display unit is provided with a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels each include a first electrode, an insulating film, an organic layer, and a second electrode. The insulating film is provided on the first electrode, and has openings. The organic layer is provided in each of the openings of the insulating film, and includes a light-emitting layer. The second electrode is provided on the organic layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of sub-electrodes that are provided to face the respective openings of the insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Kaoru ABE, Jiro YAMADA, Kazuma TERAMOTO, Kenichi NENDAI, Hideki KOBAYASHI, Masaki NISHIMURA
  • Publication number: 20190008015
    Abstract: An organic EL display unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display layer, and a sealing section. The display layer is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The display layer includes an organic layer. The sealing section is provided continuously from an end surface of the display layer to at least a portion of respective end surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Keishi Tada, Jiro Yamada, Shinichiro Morikawa, Masaaki Sekine, Naoki Matsushita, Kohji Hanawa
  • Publication number: 20180294430
    Abstract: An electroluminescence device and a display device including an electroluminescence device are provided. The electroluminescence device includes an anode including silver, wherein at least a portion of the anode substantially extends in a horizontal direction; a first layer provided over the anode; an organic layer including a luminescent layer; a cathode provided over the organic layer; and an insulating layer provided over an end portion of the anode and an end portion of the first layer, wherein at least a portion of the cathode substantially extends in the horizontal direction in a light emission region, wherein a surface of the insulating layer has a curved portion, and wherein at least a portion of the cathode within a region of the insulating layer above the curved portion extends along a first angled upward direction between the horizontal direction and the thickness direction of the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Koji HANAWA, Jiro YAMADA, Takashi HIRANO
  • Publication number: 20180277791
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus and a method of manufacture. The display apparatus includes a first substrate with a plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, a second substrate with a color filter, the second substrate facing the first substrate, and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so as to cover the plurality of organic electroluminescence devices, the adhesive layer being made of a material selected from the group consisting of a phenol resin, a melanin resin, an unsaturated polyester resin, an epoxy resin, a silicon resin and a polyurethane resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Yuichi Iwase, Yasunori Kijima, Jiro Yamada
  • Publication number: 20180269429
    Abstract: Provided is a light emitting apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of light emitting devices, wherein the substrate further includes a plurality of first members configured to diffuse light emitted from at least one of the light emitting devices, and a second member that is positioned between the first members, wherein the second member includes a light absorbing layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Yasuyuki KUDO, Jiro YAMADA, Seiichiro JINTA, Shigeyuki MATSUNAMI