Patents by Inventor Jun Ooida

Jun Ooida 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: 8325284
    Abstract: The manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device includes a step of forming the scanning signal lines including a step in which a photosensitive material film is exposed using an exposure device having a spatial light modulating element which generates an exposure pattern by a numerical control based on drawing data prepared based on the layout data. The drawing data is prepared by correction such that a shape of a portion of the scanning signal line in the layout data which is overlapped to a source electrode has an area corresponding to the distribution of a film thickness of an insulation layer interposed between the scanning signal line and the source electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takahiro Miyazaki, Jun Ooida
  • Patent number: 8274619
    Abstract: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Patent number: 7993179
    Abstract: An exposure method that suppresses distribution of pattern shapes at the time of exposure. In a manufacturing method for a display unit, a layer forming a reference for pattern arrangement is determined among layers formed on a panel. An arrangement of a pattern in a layer above the reference layer is determined using a value obtained from distribution of the pattern arrangement in the reference layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ishikawa, Jun Ooida, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Takahiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20110157508
    Abstract: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Patent number: 7916231
    Abstract: A display device comprising a plurality of scan signal lines; a plurality of picture signal lines three-dimensionally intersecting the plurality of scan signal lines; and numerous TFT elements arranged in a matrix; and having a display panel in which each of the TFT elements has a gate connected to one of the plurality of scan signal lines, and a drain or source connected to one of the plurality of picture signal lines; wherein the TFT elements respectively differ in terms of channel width, channel length, or both, depending on a distance from a signal input terminal of the scan signal line to which the gate is connected and a distance from a signal input terminal of the picture signal line to which one of the drain and the source is connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Ooida, Takahiro Miyazaki, Ken Ohara, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Patent number: 7903218
    Abstract: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Publication number: 20110050552
    Abstract: The manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device includes a step of forming the scanning signal lines including a step in which a photosensitive material film is exposed using an exposure device having a spatial light modulating element which generates an exposure pattern by a numerical control based on drawing data prepared based on the layout data. The drawing data is prepared by correction such that a shape of a portion of the scanning signal line in the layout data which is overlapped to a source electrode has an area corresponding to the distribution of a film thickness of an insulation layer interposed between the scanning signal line and the source electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Inventors: Takahiro MIYAZAKI, Jun Ooida
  • Patent number: 7800729
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can easily prevent the generation of longitudinal smear. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix array. In a state that a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with one pixel electrode out of the plurality of pixel electrodes sandwiched therebetween in a region where one pixel electrode is arranged is larger than a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with another pixel electrode different from one pixel electrode sandwiched therebetween in a region where another electrode is arranged, a size of one pixel electrode is set larger than a size of another pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Patent number: 7655510
    Abstract: A display panel manufacturing method in which forming a thin film on a substrate and etching the thin film are repeated a plurality of times to form on the substrate a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines that three-dimensionally intersects the plurality of scanning signal lines with an insulating layer between them, and TFT elements and pixel electrodes each disposed in a pixel area enclosed with two adjacent scanning signal lines and two adjacent video signal lines. The method also includes: exposing a resist film using exposure dimensions numerically expressed based on design patterns prepared in advance; etching the thin film using etching resists formed by developing the exposed resist film so as to form thin-film patterns; and correcting the design patterns according to the complete dimensions of the formed thin-film patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Jun Ooida, Ken Ohara
  • Publication number: 20090244466
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can decrease periodical stripe-shaped irregularities is provided. In an active-matrix-type liquid crystal display device, a width of a stripe-shaped irregularity generating region where distance between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode changes is set to 50 ?m less. To be more specific, at the time of exposing a resist pattern on a TFT substrate, by scanning an exposure light plural times using a direct drawing exposure machine, a width of an overlapping region of exposure regions which is generated in scanning is set to 50 ?m or less thus setting the width of the stripe-shaped irregularity generating region to 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi, Jun Ooida, Hideo Tanabe, Toshiki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7595506
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique which can make an image quality on a screen of a TFT liquid crystal display device uniform. A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate on which TFT circuits are arranged in an array, a counter substrate which is arranged to face a surface of the TFT substrate on which the TFTs are formed, and a liquid crystal material which is filled between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate, wherein in the TFT substrate, assuming a film thickness and a width of a conductive film of the gate electrode lines in a first region thereof as GLD1 and GLW1 respectively, and a film thickness and a width of a conductive film of the gate electrode lines in a second region thereof which differs from the first region as GLD2 and GLW2 respectively, when the relationship GLD1<GLD2 is established, the relationship GLW1>GLW2 is established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Jun Ooida, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Patent number: 7576828
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, pixel regions which are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of the pair of substrates, and thin film transistors which are formed on respective pixel regions, wherein each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a gate signal line, a semiconductor layer laminated to the gate electrode by way of an insulation film, a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor layer and connected to a drain signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode, and the semiconductor layer is formed in a periodically irregular shape in a zone having a width substantially larger than a width of the source electrode on a side thereof from which at least the source electrode is pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Nakayama, Ryuuta Watanabe, Jun Ooida, Yasuko Gotoh, Kaori Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 7561243
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, pixel regions which are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of the pair of substrates, and thin film transistors which are formed on respective pixel regions, wherein each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a gate signal line, a semiconductor layer laminated to the gate electrode by way of an insulation film, a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor layer and connected to a drain signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode, and the semiconductor layer is formed in a periodically irregular shape in a zone having a width substantially larger than a width of the source electrode on a side thereof from which at least the source electrode is pulled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanori Nakayama, Ryuuta Watanabe, Jun Ooida, Yasuko Gotoh, Kaori Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20090033817
    Abstract: A display device comprising a plurality of scan signal lines; a plurality of picture signal lines three-dimensionally intersecting the plurality of scan signal lines; and numerous TFT elements arranged in a matrix; and having a display panel in which each of the TFT elements has a gate connected to one of the plurality of scan signal lines, and a drain or source connected to one of the plurality of picture signal lines; wherein the TFT elements respectively differ in terms of channel width, channel length, or both, depending on a distance from a signal input terminal of the scan signal line to which the gate is connected and a distance from a signal input terminal of the picture signal line to which one of the drain and the source is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jun Ooida, Takahiro Miyazaki, Ken Ohara, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Publication number: 20080266476
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other in an opposed manner while sandwiching liquid crystal therebetween, pixel regions which are formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate out of the pair of substrates, and thin film transistors which are formed on respective pixel regions, wherein each thin film transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a gate signal line, a semiconductor layer laminated to the gate electrode by way of an insulation film, a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor layer and connected to a drain signal line, and a source electrode connected to a pixel electrode, and the semiconductor layer is formed in a periodically irregular shape in a zone having a width substantially larger than a width of the source electrode on a side thereof from which at least the source electrode is pulled out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Takanori Nakayama, Ryuuta Watanabe, Jun Ooida, Yasuko Gotoh, Kaori Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20080225191
    Abstract: A display device which can reduce easily the brightness unevenness produced by the insufficient writing of TFT, wherein, the display device having: a display panel which, over a surface of an insulating substrate, includes plural scanning signal lines; plural picture signal lines; plural TFTs; plural pixel electrodes coupled to sources of the TFTs; and a counter electrode, wherein the pixel and counter electrodes are arranged over the same surface of an insulating layer overlying the surface of the insulating substrate, and when a gate insulating film provided at one TFT among the TFTs is thinner than a gate insulating film provided at another TFT among the TFTs, a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the one TFT and the counter electrode is set to be wider than a gap between a pixel electrode coupled to the source of the another TFT and the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Publication number: 20080212010
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can easily prevent the generation of longitudinal smear. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of scanning signal lines, a plurality of video signal lines, a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix array. In a state that a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with one pixel electrode out of the plurality of pixel electrodes sandwiched therebetween in a region where one pixel electrode is arranged is larger than a gap between two neighboring video signal lines with another pixel electrode different from one pixel electrode sandwiched therebetween in a region where another electrode is arranged, a size of one pixel electrode is set larger than a size of another pixel electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Hiroshi Saito, Jun Ooida
  • Publication number: 20080176478
    Abstract: An exposure method that suppresses distribution of pattern shapes at the time of exposure. In a manufacturing method for a display unit, a layer forming a reference for pattern arrangement is determined among layers formed on a panel. An arrangement of a pattern in a layer above the reference layer is determined using a value obtained from distribution of the pattern arrangement in the reference layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Inventors: Seiji ISHIKAWA, Jun Ooida, Yoshinori Muramatsu, Takahiro Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20080036987
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to readily minimize inhomogeneity in image quality in a display field on one liquid crystal display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Nakayoshi, Takahiro Miyazaki, Jun Ooida, Ken Ohara
  • Publication number: 20060220024
    Abstract: The present invention provides a technique which can make an image quality on a screen of a TFT liquid crystal display device uniform. A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate on which TFT circuits are arranged in an array, a counter substrate which is arranged to face a surface of the TFT substrate on which the TFTs are formed, and a liquid crystal material which is filled between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate, wherein in the TFT substrate, assuming a film thickness and a width of a conductive film of the gate electrode lines in a first region thereof as GLD1 and GLW1 respectively, and a film thickness and a width of a conductive film of the gate electrode lines in a second region thereof which differs from the first region as GLD2 and GLW2 respectively, when the relationship GLD1<GLD2 is established, the relationship GLW1>GLW2 is established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Ken Ohara, Jun Ooida, Hiroshi Saito, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi