Patents by Inventor Jun Fujiyoshi
Jun Fujiyoshi 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).
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Publication number: 20160111474Abstract: There is provided an EL display device of a color filter system which obtains sufficient brightness and contrast while making it difficult to generate a color mixture even if pixels become fine. An EL display device 100 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, a circuit layer 2 formed on the first substrate 1, a color selection reflection layer 11 formed in an upper layer of the circuit layer 2, lower electrodes 5 formed in an upper layer of the color selection reflection layer 11, a white light emission EL layer 7 formed in an upper layer of the lower electrodes 5, an upper electrode 8 formed in an upper layer of the EL layer 7, and a sealing layer 9 formed in an upper layer of the upper electrode 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
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Patent number: 9274367Abstract: Display device, including: substrates, color filters having first and second color filters, drain and gate signal lines (of light blocking material), wherein, an overlapping portion adjacent the first and second color filter overlap, is formed on a region with one of the drain or gate signal lines, a first color filter edge is a first taper and a second color filter edge is a second taper, in the overlapping portion, the first taper is closer to the drain or gate signal line than the second taper in the overlapping portion, the first taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the drain or gate signal line, the second taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the first taper and, the first taper angle is larger than the second taper angle.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co. Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Mizuno, Junji Tanno, Shinsuke Hayahara, Masato Sakurai, Yasukazu Kimura, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Patent number: 9257491Abstract: There is provided an EL display device of a color filter system which obtains sufficient brightness and contrast while making it difficult to generate a color mixture even if pixels become fine. An EL display device 100 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, a circuit layer 2 formed on the first substrate 1, a color selection reflection layer 11 formed in an upper layer of the circuit layer 2, lower electrodes 5 formed in an upper layer of the color selection reflection layer 11, a white light emission EL layer 7 formed in an upper layer of the lower electrodes 5, an upper electrode 8 formed in an upper layer of the EL layer 7, and a sealing layer 9 formed in an upper layer of the upper electrode 8.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Publication number: 20160025962Abstract: [PROBLEM] To provide a display device capable of improving the transmittance of light at an opening that passes light while maintaining high reflectivity in a reflective layer. [RESOLUTION MEANS] Use a metal film and an reflection increasing film to configure a reflective layer provided in an element substrate to effectively utilize light of a light source. Leave a silicon nitride film that is one portion of the reflection increasing film in the opening that passes the light of the light source while removing the metal film. At this time, the film thickness of the silicon nitride film in the reflection increasing film is ¼ the wavelength of incident light and, on the other hand, the film thickness of the silicon nitride film in the opening is ½ the wavelength of the incident light. The silicon nitride film that is one portion of the reflection increasing film and a passivation film provided in a top layer of an interlayer dielectric film are laminated in the opening to achieve this structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Takehide Kuranaga, Toshihiko Itoga, Jun Fujiyoshi, Masaya Adachi
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Publication number: 20150380679Abstract: The aim is to improve the bending resistance a display device. The display device in one embodiment includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface and a curved part between the first surface and the second surface, a display element arranged on the first surface, a conducting layer connected with the display element and extending to the second surface from the first surface via the curved part, a plurality of protective layers having a lower ductility than the substrate and arranged in the substrate side and/or opposite side to the substrate side with respect to the conducting layer and along the curved part, wherein each of the plurality of protective layers spreading over the curved part, to a certain region of the first surface side from the curved part, and to a certain region of the second side from the curved part.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Jun FUJIYOSHI, Kazuto Tsuruoka
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Patent number: 9206036Abstract: A cut which penetrates a resin layer is formed in the resin layer such that the cut surrounds a third upper surface. A film is formed such that the film covers the whole resin layer except for a bottom surface of the resin layer inside the cut and at least a portion of the resin layer is exposed outside the cut. The resin layer which is wholly covered with the film is left inside the cut, and the whole resin layer continuously formed with a surface exposed from the film is removed outside the cut. A bump is formed by the resin layer and the film inside the cut, and a shutter and at least a portion of a drive part are formed by the film outside the cut in a state where these parts are floated from a first substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Jun Fujiyoshi, Yasukazu Kimura
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Patent number: 9164275Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of pixels each having a shutter plate formed and an actuator portion, wherein the actuator portion has a beam portion connected to the shutter plate, a drive electrode causing the beam portion to bend to drive the shutter plate, a first supporting portion supporting the drive electrode and fixed on a substrate, and a second supporting portion supporting the beam portion and fixed on the substrate, at least one of the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion has a planar portion, and a recessed portion formed to be concaved from the planar portion and connected to the substrate, and the recessed portion has a vertically formed portion formed to be inclined substantially vertically from the planar portion, and a portion starting from the vertically formed portion and formed such that the inclination of the portion becomes gentle toward the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Yasukazu Kimura, Jun Fujiyoshi, Takeshi Kuriyagawa, Daisuke Sonoda
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Publication number: 20150280172Abstract: A display device is provided including a first substrate comprising a resin material provided with a plurality region provided with a plurality of pixels including a display device, and a second substrate provided facing the first substrate and installed with the pixel region, wherein an outer periphery side surface of the first substrate having a taper shape and including a barrier layer covering an upper layer, lower layer and the outer periphery side surface of the first substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Takuma NISHINOHARA, Toshihiko ITOGA, Norio OKU, Yasukazu KIMURA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
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Patent number: 9134529Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having an upper surface. The display device also includes a light reflecting layer to reflect light, formed over the upper surface of the substrate. The display device also includes a light absorbing layer to absorb light, formed over the upper surface of the light reflecting layer. A plurality of apertures are defined through the light reflecting layer and the light absorbing layer such that, at an edge of each of the plurality of apertures, the light absorbing layer partially overhangs the light reflecting layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2012Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Pixronix, Inc.Inventors: Daisuke Sonoda, Jun Fujiyoshi, Kohei Takahashi, Takuo Kaitou, Katsumi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 9134531Abstract: Provided is a display device, including: a sealing member including an opening and surrounding a space defined by a pair of light transmissive substrates; an end seal for closing the opening of the sealing member to form an encapsulation space; oil filled in the encapsulation space; a spacer for maintaining an interval between the pair of light transmissive substrates; a shutter; a drive portion arranged in the oil, for mechanically driving the shutter; and a wall portion formed on at least one of opposed surfaces of the pair of light transmissive substrates. The wall portion includes a part arranged at a position interrupting a shortest path between the opening of the sealing member and a display region. The wall portion is made of a material forming the spacer, the shutter, and the drive portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2014Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Masataka Okamoto, Hidekazu Nitta, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Patent number: 9128287Abstract: A MEMS substrate is formed from a transparent substrate and a movable type shutter arranged on each pixel of a surface of the transparent substrate. An AP substrate includes another substrate and a light blocking film arranged on the other transparent substrate formed with an aperture corresponding to each shutter. A plurality of supporting columns is formed on a surface of the transparent substrate of the MEMS substrate. A plurality of cylindrical contact holes having the same inner diameter as an outer diameter of each supporting column are formed at a position corresponding to one part of the supporting columns. Both substrates are arranged with a certain interval so that each shutter and an aperture oppose each other, thereby a tip end of corresponding supporting columns is inserted into each contact hole and in this way, both substrate are mutually positioned.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Yasukazu Kimura, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Publication number: 20150214279Abstract: There is provided an EL display device of a color filter system which obtains sufficient brightness and contrast while making it difficult to generate a color mixture even if pixels become fine. An EL display device 100 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, a circuit layer 2 formed on the first substrate 1, a color selection reflection layer 11 formed in an upper layer of the circuit layer 2, lower electrodes 5 formed in an upper layer of the color selection reflection layer 11, a white light emission EL layer 7 formed in an upper layer of the lower electrodes 5, an upper electrode 8 formed in an upper layer of the EL layer 7, and a sealing layer 9 formed in an upper layer of the upper electrode 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2015Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20150206928Abstract: A display device is comprising an insulating layer provided above a substrate, a pixel electrode provided on the insulating layer, a bank layer covering a periphery edge part of the pixel electrode, a light emitting layer provided across to a surface layer part of the bank layer from the pixel electrode, and a common electrode provided on the light emitting layer, wherein the pixel electrode including a slanting region having a periphery edge part becoming higher compared to a center region, and an edge part of the bank layer overlaps the slanting region of the pixel electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: July 23, 2015Inventors: Yasukazu KIMURA, Norio OKU, Toshihiko ITOGA, Takeshi KURIYAGAWA, Jun FUJIYOSHI, Takuma NISHINOHARA
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Patent number: 9048369Abstract: There is provided an EL display device of a color filter system which obtains sufficient brightness and contrast while making it difficult to generate a color mixture even if pixels become fine. An EL display device 100 according to the present invention includes a first substrate 1, a circuit layer 2 formed on the first substrate 1, a color selection reflection layer 11 formed in an upper layer of the circuit layer 2, lower electrodes 5 formed in an upper layer of the color selection reflection layer 11, a white light emission EL layer 7 formed in an upper layer of the lower electrodes 5, an upper electrode 8 formed in an upper layer of the EL layer 7, and a sealing layer 9 formed in an upper layer of the upper electrode 8.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Publication number: 20150138617Abstract: Provided is a display device, including: a sealing member including an opening and surrounding a space defined by a pair of light transmissive substrates; an end seal for closing the opening of the sealing member to form an encapsulation space; oil filled in the encapsulation space; a spacer for maintaining an interval between the pair of light transmissive substrates; a shutter; a drive portion arranged in the oil, for mechanically driving the shutter; and a wall portion formed on at least one of opposed surfaces of the pair of light transmissive substrates. The wall portion includes a part arranged at a position interrupting a shortest path between the opening of the sealing member and a display region. The wall portion is made of a material forming the spacer, the shutter, and the drive portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Masataka OKAMOTO, Hidekazu NITTA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20150102356Abstract: Display device, including: substrates, color filters having first and second color filters, drain and gate signal lines (of light blocking material), wherein, an overlapping portion adjacent the first and second color filter overlap, is formed on a region with one of the drain or gate signal lines, a first color filter edge is a first taper and a second color filter edge is a second taper, in the overlapping portion, the first taper is closer to the drain or gate signal line than the second taper in the overlapping portion, the first taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the drain or gate signal line, the second taper angle is 45° or more and 90° or less corresponding to a surface of the first taper and, the first taper angle is larger than the second taper angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2014Publication date: April 16, 2015Inventors: Yasuhiro MIZUNO, Junji TANNO, Shinsuke HAYAHARA, Masato SAKURAI, Yasukazu KIMURA, Jun FUJIYOSHI
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Publication number: 20150055046Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a thin-film transistor and a pixel electrode formed above a substrate, and an organic insulation film formed between one electrode of the thin-film transistor and the pixel electrode. The one electrode and the pixel electrode are connected through a contact hole formed in the organic insulation film, and a sidewall of the contact hole, which is made of the organic insulation film, is tapered. An underlying layer beneath the organic insulation film, in contact with to the organic insulation film, includes a lowermost plane extending substantially in parallel to a plane of the substrate and an uppermost plane extending substantially in parallel to the plane of the substrate. A single step of the underlying layer is formed so as to extend between the lowermost plane and the uppermost plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Jun Fujiyoshi, Yasukazu Kimura, Hideo Tanabe, Masataka Okamoto, Hidekazu Miyake
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Patent number: 8953122Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a higher aperture ratio is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, second color filters are formed so as to overlap with first color filters when adjacent color filters having different colors are formed on the TFT substrate side, so that the angle of the first tapers where said first color filters overlap and the angle of the second tapers where said second color filters overlap are set to 45° or more and 90° or less.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Mizuno, Junji Tanno, Shinsuke Hayahara, Masato Sakurai, Yasukazu Kimura, Jun Fujiyoshi
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Patent number: 8908116Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate with a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The first substrate includes drain lines, gate lines, thin-film transistors that output signals to pixel electrodes, and an organic film that is formed between each thin-film transistor and each pixel electrode. The organic film has a contact hole for electrical connection between a source electrode of each thin-film transistor and each pixel electrode. A step is formed in a layer underlying the organic film and an edge portion of the organic film toward the thin-film transistor, the edge portion forming the contact hole, being formed to lie on a lower plane of the step. A sidewall part of the contact hole which is formed in the organic film is formed to have a taper angle of at least 60 degrees.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Fujiyoshi, Yasukazu Kimura, Hideo Tanabe, Masataka Okamoto, Hidekazu Miyake
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Patent number: 8743446Abstract: Provided is a display device, including: a sealing member including an opening and surrounding a space defined by a pair of light transmissive substrates; an end seal for closing the opening of the sealing member to form an encapsulation space; oil filled in the encapsulation space; a spacer for maintaining an interval between the pair of light transmissive substrates; a shutter; a drive portion arranged in the oil, for mechanically driving the shutter; and a wall portion formed on at least one of opposed surfaces of the pair of light transmissive substrates. The wall portion includes apart arranged at a position interrupting a shortest path between the opening of the sealing member and a display region. The wall portion is made of a material forming the spacer, the shutter, and the drive portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Pixtronix, Inc.Inventors: Masataka Okamoto, Hidekazu Nitta, Jun Fujiyoshi