Patents by Inventor Katsuhiro Kikuchi
Katsuhiro Kikuchi 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: 20160155944Abstract: The vapor deposition apparatus employs scanning vapor deposition, and includes a limiting component including a first plate portion; a second plate portion provided with a space from the first plate portion; and a joint portion combining the first plate portion with the second plate portion, the first plate portion being provided with an first opening, the second plate portion being provided with an second opening that faces the first opening, the vapor deposition apparatus including a first space between the first opening and the second opening, the vapor deposition apparatus including a second space between the first plate portion and the second plate portion, the first space being connected to the second space, the vapor deposition apparatus including a third space that is in the outside of the limiting component, the second space being connected to the third space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: June 2, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyuki ISOMURA, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Shinichi KAWATO, Satoshi INOUE, Takashi OCHI, Yuhki KOBAYASHI, Eiichi MATSUMOTO, Masahiro ICHIHARA
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Publication number: 20160149134Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing an organic EL element capable of shortening the film formation time while suppressing an increase in the blur width; and an organic EL display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Satoshi INOUE, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Shinichi KAWATO, Takashi OCHI, Yuhki KOBAYASHI, Masahiro ICHIHARA, Eiichi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9343515Abstract: A display device that includes a reflective electrode; a transparent electrode; a partition; an EL layer formed over the partition and the transparent electrode; a semi-transmissive electrode formed over the EL layer; and a coloring layer over the semi-transmissive electrode. A light-emitting region is formed to overlap with the transparent electrode, the EL layer, the semi-transmissive electrode, and the coloring layer. A non-light-emitting region is formed to overlap with the transparent electrode, the partition, the EL layer, and the coloring layer. The non-light-emitting region is formed to surround the light-emitting region. The sum of the optical length of the transparent electrode and the optical length of the EL layer is adjusted to fulfill a condition of a microcavity intensifying light of the color of the coloring layer. The optical length of the partition in the non-light-emitting region is adjusted to weaken external light incident through the coloring layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nozomu Sugisawa, Hisao Ikeda, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Satoshi Inoue, Yuto Tsukamoto, Shinichi Kawato
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Publication number: 20160122861Abstract: A vapor deposition unit (1) includes a vapor deposition mask (50), a vapor deposition source (10), and a limiting plate unit (20). The limiting plate unit (20) includes (i) a plurality of first limiting plates (32) separated from each other in an X axis direction and (ii) a plurality of second limiting plates (42) disposed directly above the first limiting plates (32) in a plan view and separated from each other in the X axis direction. At least two second limiting plates (42) are arranged in the X axis direction for each first limiting plate (32).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuhki KOBAYASHI, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Shinichi KAWATO, Satoshi INOUE, Takashi OCHI, Eiichi MATSUMOTO, Masahiro ICHIHARA
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Patent number: 9268073Abstract: The present invention provides a counter electrode (13) and an alignment controlling electrode opening (14) directly on a color filter colored layer (12) to produce a liquid crystal display device (1) of a vertical alignment (VA) display mode. The present invention includes no overcoat layer for the color filter colored layer (12), and adjusts the thickness, pigment concentrations and the like for the color filter colored layer (12) to achieve a wide color reproduction range and high alignment stability.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2010Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takashi Ochi
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Patent number: 9252194Abstract: An EC region (second region) of an organic EL display device (1) has an optical interference layer which is a multilayer of (i) an edge cover (7) made from an acrylic resin having a lower refractive index, (ii) an organic layer (8), and (iii) a second electrode (9) which is a thin and semi-transparent film. Therefore, the organic EL display device (1) can suppress a deterioration in contrast without narrowing a display region, and can have a high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Ochi, Manabu Niboshi, Shinichi Kawato, Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Tomohiro Kosaka
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Patent number: 9231154Abstract: The emission efficiency of a light-emitting device including a microcavity structure is improved. The light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements. The plurality of light-emitting elements each include a reflective electrode, a transparent electrode, a plurality of light-emitting layers, and a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode stacked in that order. The plurality of light-emitting layers emit light of different colors. A surface roughness of the transparent electrode in the light-emitting element which is among the plurality of light-emitting elements and in which light emitted from the light-emitting layer closest to the reflective electrode is amplified and emitted outside is greater than surface roughnesses of the transparent electrodes in the other light-emitting elements.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hisao Ikeda, Takuya Kawata, Manabu Niboshi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Kosaka, Tomofumi Osaki
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Publication number: 20150361546Abstract: The vapor deposition device includes a plurality of vapor deposition masks whose lengths in Y axis and X axis directions are shorter than those of a film formation target substrate. Vapor deposition masks adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction is positionally displaced in the X axis direction. In an overlapping area in which mask opening group areas adjacent to each other in the Y axis direction overlap with each other in the X axis direction, opening lengths in the Y axis direction become shorter toward the outer side of each of the mask opening group areas in the plan view.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi OCHI, Shinichi KAWATO, Yuhki KOBAYASHI, Manabu NIBOSHI, Satoshi INOUE, Yuto TSUKAMOTO, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Masahiro ICHIHARA, Eiichi MATSUMOTO
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Patent number: 9209355Abstract: Occurrence of a crosstalk phenomenon in a light-emitting device is inhibited. The light-emitting device includes an insulating layer; a first lower electrode over the insulating layer; a second lower electrode over the insulating layer; a structure over the insulating layer and between the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode; a first partition wall between the first lower electrode and the structure, over the insulating layer; a second partition wall between the second lower electrode and the structure, over the insulating layer; a first light-emitting unit over the first lower electrode, the first partition wall, the structure, the second partition wall, and the second lower electrode; an intermediate layer over the first light-emitting unit; a second light-emitting unit over the intermediate layer; and an upper electrode over the second light-emitting unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Naoyuki Senda, Yoshitaka Dozen, Kohei Yokoyama, Manabu Niboshi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Satoshi Inoue, Shinichi Kawato, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20150299840Abstract: A mask frame according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a side with a surface having a shape of a mountain that has the highest point at a center in the lengthwise direction thereof and respective lowest points at an end and another end in the lengthwise direction, and a side facing the side and having the same shape as the side.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Tomofumi Osaki, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Tomohiro Kosaka, Yuto Tsukamoto
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Patent number: 9159948Abstract: To inhibit surface reflection of a display device. A display device which includes a reflective electrode layer 110; a partition 118 formed to surround the reflective electrode layer; a layer 120 containing a light-emitting organic compound and formed over the partition and the reflective electrode layer; a semi-transmissive electrode layer 122 formed over the layer containing the light-emitting organic compound; and a coloring layer 162 formed over the semi-transmissive electrode layer. The coloring layer overlaps with the reflective electrode layer and the partition. The partition does not overlap with the reflective electrode layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Nozomu Sugisawa, Hisao Ikeda, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Satoshi Inoue, Yuto Tsukamoto, Shinichi Kawato
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Patent number: 9128220Abstract: A light guiding element has a first principal surface, a second principal surface which opposes the first principal surface, a first lateral surface which intersects with the first principal surface and the second principal surface, and a second lateral surface which opposes the first lateral surface. The light guiding element allows light incoming from the first lateral surface to propagate between the first principal surface and the second principal surface. The light guiding element includes a portion in which a refractive index varies substantially continuously from the first principal surface toward the second principal surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Ochi, Masakazu Shibasaki, Iori Aoyama, Yuichi Iyama, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
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Patent number: 9093404Abstract: The light-emitting device includes a first lower electrode, a second lower electrode, a partition, a layer with high conductivity, light-emitting layers, and an upper electrode. The conductivity of the layer with high conductivity is higher than the conductivity of each of the light-emitting layers and lower than the conductivity of each of the lower electrodes and the upper electrode. The partition includes a first slope located on a first lower electrode side and a second slope located on a second lower electrode side. The thickness of the layer with high conductivity located over the first slope in a direction perpendicular to the first slope is different from the thickness of the layer with high conductivity located over the second slope in a direction perpendicular to the second slope.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kohei Yokoyama, Tomohiro Kosaka, Fumikazu Shimoshikiryoh, Shinichi Kawato, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Takashi Ochi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomofumi Osaki
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Patent number: 9087964Abstract: Occurrence of a crosstalk phenomenon is suppressed in a light-emitting device including a tandem element. A light-emitting device includes a first lower electrode and a second lower electrode over an insulating layer; a partition which is formed over the insulating layer and positioned between the first lower electrode and the second lower electrode; a projecting object formed over the partition; a first light-emitting unit over each of the first lower electrode, the partition, the projecting object, and the second lower electrode; an intermediate layer over the first light-emitting unit; a second light-emitting unit over the intermediate layer; and an upper electrode over the second light-emitting unit. A recess is formed by a side surface of the projecting object and a side surface of the partition.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignees: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd., Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Kaoru Hatano, Naoyuki Senda, Manabu Niboshi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Kosaka, Tomofumi Osaki
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Patent number: 9081141Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to minimize decrease in an open area ratio while preventing color mixture between adjacent pixels. A color filter substrate (20) includes a substrate and light-shielding members (21, 22) provided in a matrix manner on the substrate, the light-shielding members (21, 22) having different thicknesses on the substrate depending on positions of the light-shielding members (21, 22).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2013Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takashi Ochi, Shinichi Kawato, Manabu Niboshi, Tomohiro Kosaka
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Publication number: 20150159267Abstract: A mask unit is arranged such that at any location along an X direction with respect to openings (S) of a vapor deposition mask, the length of that portion of openings S which is uncovered by a beam portion totals a constant length along a Y direction in a plan view and that the beam portion has a part in contact with the vapor deposition mask which part does not bridge an opening of a frame portion along the Y direction but extends to cross the Y direction continuously or intermittently.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: Takashi Ochi, Shinichi Kawato, Tomofumi Osaki, Manabu Niboshi, Tomohiro Kosaka, Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20150123092Abstract: An organic EL display device is provided with: an organic EL element, which is formed on an insulating substrate, and which is provided between the insulating substrate and an insulating substrate; a sealing material, which is provided in a frame region, and which is sandwiched between the insulating substrate and the insulating substrate to bond the insulating substrates to each other; and a wall member, which is provided in the frame region by being adjacent to the outer face side of the sealing material, and which forms level differences in the sealing material so as to make the height of the outer face side of the sealing material small.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2013Publication date: May 7, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Manabu Niboshi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Kosaka, Tomofumi Osaki
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Publication number: 20150114297Abstract: In a deposition device, a deposition mask of a mask unit (54) has a width in the scanning (movement) direction thereof that is less than a width of a target substrate (on which film will be deposited) in the same scanning direction. A substrate holder includes a substrate holding surface that has at least one curve along the scanning direction matching a bend in the target substrate caused by the weight thereof, and this curve occurs in the direction perpendicular to the scanning direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: April 30, 2015Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Kawato, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Manabu Niboshi, Takashi Ochi, Yuto Tsukamoto, Tomohiro Kosaka, Tomofumi Osaki
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Publication number: 20150008417Abstract: An EC region (second region) of an organic EL display device (1) has an optical interference layer which is a multilayer of (i) an edge cover (7) made from an acrylic resin having a lower refractive index, (ii) an organic layer (8), and (iii) a second electrode (9) which is a thin and semi-transparent film. Therefore, the organic EL display device (1) can suppress a deterioration in contrast without narrowing a display region, and can have a high reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Takashi Ochi, Manabu Niboshi, Shinichi Kawato, Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Tomohiro Kosaka
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Publication number: 20140367675Abstract: A purpose of the present invention is to minimize decrease in an open area ratio while preventing color mixture between adjacent pixels. A color filter substrate (20) includes a substrate and light-shielding members (21, 22) provided in a matrix manner on the substrate, the light-shielding members (21, 22) having different thicknesses on the substrate depending on positions of the light-shielding members (21, 22).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Takashi Ochi, Shinichi Kawato, Manabu Niboshi, Tomohiro Kosaka