Patents by Inventor Kazufumi Watabe

Kazufumi Watabe 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: 11942484
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed of silicon and positioned above the insulating substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed of a metal oxide and positioned above the first semiconductor layer, a first insulating film formed of a silicon nitride and positioned between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a block layer positioned between the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor layer, the block layer hydrogen diffusion of which is lower than that of the first insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hanada, Hajime Watakabe, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Publication number: 20240030226
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Isao SUZUMURA, Kazufumi WATABE, Yoshinori ISHII, Hidekazu MIYAKE, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230361220
    Abstract: The invention allows stable fabrication of a TFT circuit board used in a display device and having thereon an oxide semiconductor TFT. A TFT circuit board includes a TFT that includes an oxide semiconductor. The TFT has a gate insulating film formed on part of the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A portion of the oxide semiconductor that is covered with the gate electrode 104 and a portion of the oxide semiconductor that is not covered with the gate electrode are both covered with a first interlayer insulating film. The first interlayer insulating film is covered with a first film 106, and the first film is covered with a first AlO film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Yohei YAMAGUCHI, Kazufumi WATABE, Tomoyuki ARIYOSHI, Osamu KARIKOME, Ryohei TAKAYA
  • Patent number: 11810921
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Kazufumi Watabe, Yoshinori Ishii, Hidekazu Miyake, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11798950
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent forming of soot like black substance on the back of the TFT substrate of resin during laser ablation to separate the glass substrate from the TFT substrate. The present invention takes the following structure to counter measure the above problem. A display device having pixels formed on a first surface of the resin substrate including: a first layer, formed from nitride, being formed on a second surface of the resin substrate, the second surface being an opposite surface to the first surface, in which a second layer, which is a separation layer, is formed on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawanago, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Patent number: 11742430
    Abstract: The invention allows stable fabrication of a TFT circuit board used in a display device and having thereon an oxide semiconductor TFT. A TFT circuit board includes a TFT that includes an oxide semiconductor. The TFT has a gate insulating film formed on part of the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A portion of the oxide semiconductor that is covered with the gate electrode 104 and a portion of the oxide semiconductor that is not covered with the gate electrode are both covered with a first interlayer insulating film. The first interlayer insulating film is covered with a first film 106, and the first film is covered with a first AlO film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yohei Yamaguchi, Kazufumi Watabe, Tomoyuki Ariyoshi, Osamu Karikome, Ryohei Takaya
  • Patent number: 11616104
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to manufacture the flexible display device having resin substrate with high yield. The structure is as follows. A manufacturing method of a display device comprising: forming a first layer of a semiconductor on a glass substrate, forming a second layer of a first metal on the first layer, forming a third layer of a first insulating material on the second layer, forming a fourth layer of a second metal or a metal oxide on the third layer, coating precursor of polyimide on the fourth layer, making a polyimide substrate by baking the precursor of polyimide to make a polyimide substrate, forming pixels on the polyimide substrate, separating the polyimide substrate and the glass substrate by making peel off between the second layer and the third layer with irradiation of a laser beam on the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawanago, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Publication number: 20230081420
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Isao SUZUMURA, Kazufumi WATABE, Yoshinori ISHII, Hidekazu MIYAKE, Yohei YAMAGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11581488
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device, including: a stacking step of stacking, on a glass substrate, a sacrificial resin layer, a metal layer, a transparent metal oxide layer, a base material resin layer, and a functional layer including at least one of a pixel circuit-constituting layer driving a plurality of pixels and a color filter layer, in this order; a radiating step of radiating a pulsed light of a xenon flash lamp to the metal layer through the glass substrate and the sacrificial resin layer; and a detaching step of reducing a force of adhesion between the sacrificial resin layer and the metal layer with the pulsed light radiated in the radiating step, and detaching the sacrificial resin layer from the metal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawanago, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Patent number: 11521990
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first. TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Kazufumi Watabe, Yoshinori Ishii, Hidekazu Miyake, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220367528
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed of silicon and positioned above the insulating substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed of a metal oxide and positioned above the first semiconductor layer, a first insulating film formed of a silicon nitride and positioned between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a block layer positioned between the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor layer, the block layer hydrogen diffusion of which is lower than that of the first insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Akihiro HANADA, Hajime WATAKABE, Kazufumi WATABE
  • Patent number: 11482544
    Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to manufacture the flexible display device having resin substrate with high throughput and high yield. The structure of the invention is as follows: a display device having plural pixels on a resin substrate comprising: a first layer made of a metal oxide film is formed on a surface of the resin substrate opposite to a surface that the plural pixels are formed, a second layer made of a transparent conductive film is formed in contact with a surface, which is opposite side to the resin substrate, of the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawanago, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Patent number: 11442515
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed of silicon and positioned above the insulating substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed of a metal oxide and positioned above the first semiconductor layer, a first insulating film formed of a silicon nitride and positioned between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and a block layer positioned between the first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor layer, the block layer hydrogen diffusion of which is lower than that of the first insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Akihiro Hanada, Hajime Watakabe, Kazufumi Watabe
  • Publication number: 20210305434
    Abstract: The invention allows stable fabrication of a TFT circuit board used in a display device and having thereon an oxide semiconductor TFT. A TFT circuit board includes a TFT that includes an oxide semiconductor. The TFT has a gate insulating film formed on part of the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A portion of the oxide semiconductor that is covered with the gate electrode 104 and a portion of the oxide semiconductor that is not covered with the gate electrode are both covered with a first interlayer insulating film. The first interlayer insulating film is covered with a first film 106, and the first film is covered with a first AlO film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yohei YAMAGUCHI, Kazufumi WATABE, Tmoyuki ARIYOSHI, Osamu KARIKOME, Ryohei TAKAYA
  • Publication number: 20210288078
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first. TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Kazufumi Watabe, Yoshinori Ishii, Hidekazu Miyake, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11063154
    Abstract: The invention allows stable fabrication of a TFT circuit board used in a display device and having thereon an oxide semiconductor TFT. A TFT circuit board includes a TFT that includes an oxide semiconductor. The TFT has a gate insulating film formed on part of the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A portion of the oxide semiconductor that is covered with the gate electrode 104 and a portion of the oxide semiconductor that is not covered with the gate electrode are both covered with a first interlayer insulating film. The first interlayer insulating film is covered with a first film 106, and the first film is covered with a first AlO film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yohei Yamaguchi, Kazufumi Watabe, Tomoyuki Ariyoshi, Osamu Karikome, Ryohei Takaya
  • Patent number: 11056514
    Abstract: Separation of wirings formed on an organic passivation film is prevented in an organic EL display device or a liquid crystal display device. The organic EL display device includes a TFT formed on a substrate and an organic passivation film formed to cover the TFT. An intermediate film containing SiO or SiN is formed to cover the organic passivation film. An insulation film formed with an organic material is formed on the intermediate film. A reflective electrode is formed on the intermediate film. The reflective electrode is connected to the TFT via a through-hole formed in the organic passivation film and a through-hole formed in the intermediate film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ishii, Kazufumi Watabe, Hidekazu Miyake
  • Patent number: 11049882
    Abstract: The object of the present invention is to make it possible to form an LTPS TFT and an oxide semiconductor TFT on the same substrate. A display device includes a substrate having a display region in which pixels are formed. The pixel includes a first TFT using an oxide semiconductor 109. An oxide film 110 as an insulating material is formed on the oxide semiconductor 109. A gate electrode 111 is formed on the oxide film 110. A first electrode 115 is connected to a drain of the first TFT via a first through hole formed in the oxide film 110. A second electrode 116 is connected to a source of the first TFT via a second through hole formed in the oxide film 110.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Isao Suzumura, Kazufumi Watabe, Yoshinori Ishii, Hidekazu Miyake, Yohei Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20210098502
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to prevent forming of soot like black substance on the back of the TFT substrate of resin during laser ablation to separate the glass substrate from the TFT substrate. The present invention takes the following structure to counter measure the above problem. A display device having pixels formed on a first surface of the resin substrate including: a first layer, formed from nitride, being formed on a second surface of the resin substrate, the second surface being an opposite surface to the first surface, in which a second layer, which is a separation layer, is formed on the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Kazufumi WATABE
  • Publication number: 20210083187
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a display device, including: a stacking step of stacking, on a glass substrate, a sacrificial resin layer, a metal layer, a transparent metal oxide layer, a base material resin layer, and a functional layer including at least one of a pixel circuit-constituting layer driving a plurality of pixels and a color filter layer, in this order; a radiating step of radiating a pulsed light of a xenon flash lamp to the metal layer through the glass substrate and the sacrificial resin layer; and a detaching step of reducing a force of adhesion between the sacrificial resin layer and the metal layer with the pulsed light radiated in the radiating step, and detaching the sacrificial resin layer from the metal layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Hiroshi KAWANAGO, Kazufumi WATABE