Patents by Inventor Kazuki Matsunaga

Kazuki Matsunaga 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: 20220058365
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes a plurality of light-receiving elements configured to receive light, and a light guide portion one surface of which faces the light-receiving elements. The light guide portion includes a plurality of light guide paths provided throughout from the one surface to the other surface of the light guide portion, and a light-absorbing portion having higher absorbance of the light than that of the light guide paths. When viewed from a direction in which the light-receiving elements and the light guide portion are stacked, more than one of the light guide paths overlap one of the light-receiving elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Kazuki MATSUNAGA, Toshiyuki HIGANO, Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220039697
    Abstract: A detection device includes: an optical sensor including a sensor base member and photoelectric conversion elements that are provided on the sensor base member and configured to output signals corresponding to light emitted to the photoelectric conversion elements; a light-emitting element configured to emit output light toward a direction of an object to be measured; and an optical element including first light-transmitting areas and a non-light-transmitting area and provided between the optical sensor and the object to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki HIGANO, Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Genki ASOZU, Kazuki MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20200274082
    Abstract: A flexible substrate includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, an array part arranged on the first surface of the substrate, a peripheral part arranged on the first surface of the substrate and located outside the array part, a terminal part arranged in the peripheral part and provided with a plurality of terminals, a protective member arranged on the second surface of the substrate. The second surface of the substrate has a first region including a region overlapping the terminal part, and the protective member has a first opening exposing the first region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Kazuki MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10651253
    Abstract: A light emitting element including at least a first trench portion having an indented shape within a single light emitting region. The first trench portion includes a first electrode, an EL layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode, the EL layer, and the second electrode are layered in this order and in contact with each other. At least one of the first electrode or the second electrode includes a reflective electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Ohara, Hideki Uchida, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Yuto Tsukamoto, Kazuki Matsunaga, Eiji Koike
  • Patent number: 10541377
    Abstract: The organic EL element (10) at least includes, between a first electrode (2) and a second electrode (4), at least one layer of an exciton generating layer (33) which contains at least one type of TADF material as a host material and at least one layer of a fluorescent emission layer (34) which contains at least one type of fluorescent emission material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Eiji Koike, Satoshi Inoue, Masanori Ohara, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20200017329
    Abstract: A sheet body is gripped (bound) by grip conveyance units, and conveyed as the grip conveyance units are displaced in this state. At the same time as this conveyance, the sheet body is held by delivering units, and delivered by a predetermined amount by the delivering units. After that, the sheet body is cut in predetermined size and shape by cutting molds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsunaga, Daigo Mukasa
  • Patent number: 10476033
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes at least a first trench portion having an indented shape within a single light-emitting region. In the first trench portion, a first electrode, an EL layer, and a second electrode are layered in this order and in contact with each other. One of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a reflective electrode, and concave-convex portions of the submicron order configured to diffract surface plasmons are provided on the surface of the reflective electrode on a side closer to the EL layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanori Ohara, Hideki Uchida, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Yuto Tsukamoto, Kazuki Matsunaga, Eiji Koike
  • Patent number: 10384417
    Abstract: It comprises: a film made of a resin in which an aperture pattern is formed, the aperture pattern passing through the film, the aperture being with a shape and dimension corresponding to the thin-film pattern in a pre-established region for formation of the thin-film pattern on the substrate; and a metal member that has an aperture part opposite the aperture pattern with a shape and dimension larger than the aperture pattern, the metal member being provided as a thin sheet in intimate contact with one surface of the film on an outside part of the aperture pattern of the film. The film is mutually distanced and distributed, at a position where the film does not overlap the aperture pattern, into a plurality of divided parts on one surface of the metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Ochi, Shinichi Kawato, Kazuki Matsunaga, Yuhki Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi
  • Publication number: 20190189948
    Abstract: The organic EL element (10) at least includes, between a first electrode (2) and a second electrode (4), at least one layer of an exciton generating layer (33) which contains at least one type of TADF material as a host material and at least one layer of a fluorescent emission layer (34) which contains at least one type of fluorescent emission material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Yuto TSUKAMOTO, Katsuhiro KIKUCHI, Hideki UCHIDA, Eiji KOIKE, Satoshi INOUE, Masanori OHARA, Kazuki MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10305056
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL element with high luminous efficacy and high productivity, and an organic EL panel including the organic EL element. The organic electroluminescent element includes, in the given order: an anode; a hole transport layer; a light-emitting unit; an electron transport layer; and a cathode, the light-emitting unit including a first luminescent dopant layer, a first blocking layer, a second luminescent dopant layer, and a mixed light-emitting layer in the given order, the mixed light-emitting layer containing a first luminescent host material and a first luminescent dopant material, the first luminescent dopant layer substantially consisting of a second luminescent dopant material, the second luminescent dopant layer substantially consisting of a third luminescent dopant material, the first blocking layer containing a second luminescent host material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsunaga, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Masanori Ohara, Satoshi Inoue, Eiji Koike, Yuto Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10276797
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vapor deposition device including a novel alignment mechanism applicable to a large substrate, a vapor deposition method, and a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element. The vapor deposition device of the present invention is a vapor deposition device for performing vapor deposition while transporting a substrate in a first direction, and includes: a mask; a substrate tray including a substrate-holding portion and a guide portion protruding from the substrate-holding portion to the mask side and disposed along the first direction; at least one distance meter disposed on a first end which is one end of the mask or the guide portion; and at least one driver coupled with a second end which is the other end of the mask. The at least one distance meter is configured to measure a distance between the at least one distance meter and the guide portion or the first end when the guide portion faces the first end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahiro Ichihara, Eiichi Matsumoto, Yuhki Kobayashi, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Shinichi Kawato, Takashi Ochi, Kazuki Matsunaga, Satoshi Inoue
  • Patent number: 10276819
    Abstract: The organic EL element (10) at least includes, between a first electrode (2) and a second electrode (4), at least one layer of an exciton generating layer (33) which contains at least one type of TADF material as a host material and at least one layer of a fluorescent emission layer (34) which contains at least one type of fluorescent emission material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Tsukamoto, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Eiji Koike, Satoshi Inoue, Masanori Ohara, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20190097135
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vapor deposition device including a novel alignment mechanism applicable to a large substrate, a vapor deposition method, and a method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescence element. The vapor deposition device of the present invention is a vapor deposition device for performing vapor deposition while transporting a substrate in a first direction, and includes: a mask; a substrate tray including a substrate-holding portion and a guide portion protruding from the substrate-holding portion to the mask side and disposed along the first direction; at least one distance meter disposed on a first end which is one end of the mask or the guide portion; and at least one driver coupled with a second end which is the other end of the mask. The at least one distance meter is configured to measure a distance between the at least one distance meter and the guide portion or the first end when the guide portion faces the first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: MASAHIRO ICHIHARA, EIICHI MATSUMOTO, YUHKI KOBAYASHI, KATSUHIRO KIKUCHI, SHINICHI KAWATO, TAKASHI OCHI, KAZUKI MATSUNAGA, SATOSHI INOUE
  • Patent number: 10224512
    Abstract: The organic EL device includes a base material, a recessed portion, a reflective layer provided along an inner face of the recessed portion, a filling layer having optical transparency, and filled and disposed at an inside of the recessed portion, with the reflective layer interposed between the recessed portion and the filling layer, a first electrode having optical transparency and provided at an upper-layer side of the filling layer, an organic layer including a light-emitting layer and provided at an upper-layer side of the first electrode, a second electrode having optical transparency and optical reflectivity and provided at an upper-layer side of the organic layer. At least a portion of an edge of the light-emitting region is positioned further inside than an edge of the recessed portion, and the reflective layer and the first electrode are in contact with each other at the periphery of the recessed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Eiji Koike, Masanori Ohara, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10219349
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a base material in which a recess is provided at an upper surface of the base material; a reflective layer that is provided at least along a surface of the recess; a filling layer that is filled into an inside of the recess via the reflective layer, the filling layer having light transmissivity; a first electrode that is provided at least on a layer above the filling layer, the first electrode having light transmissivity and light reflectivity; an organic layer that is provided on a layer above the first electrode, the organic layer including at least a light-emitting layer; and a second electrode that is provided on a layer above the organic layer, the second electrode having light transmissivity and light reflectivity. A part of the reflective layer contacts a part of the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuki Matsunaga, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Satoshi Inoue, Masanori Ohara, Eiji Koike, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura
  • Patent number: 10199605
    Abstract: An organic EL device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a base material; a first recess provided on a top surface of the base material; a reflective layer provided along a surface of the first recess; a filling layer filled in the first recess, the filling layer including a top surface on which a second recess is provided; a first electrode provided on an upper layer side of the filling layer; an organic layer comprising a light emitting layer provided on an upper layer side of the first electrode; and a second electrode provided on an upper layer side of the organic layer. Within the organic layer, a part of a light emitting area interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode is positioned inside the second recess The reflective layer is in contact with the first electrode in a periphery of the first recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Inoue, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Hideki Uchida, Eiji Koike, Masanori Ohara, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10157967
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a base material having a top surface on which a recess is provided; a reflective layer provided along at least a surface of the recess; a filling layer filled inside the recess via the reflective layer, the filling layer having light transmissivity; a first electrode provided at least on an upper layer side of the filling layer, the first electrode having light transmissivity; an organic layer provided on an upper layer side of the first electrode, the organic layer including at least a light emitting layer; and a second electrode provided on an upper layer side of the organic layer, the second electrode having light transmissivity, wherein a coloring material is mixed into the filling layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Uchida, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Eiji Koike, Masanori Ohara, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20180358577
    Abstract: An organic EL device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a base material; a first recess provided on a top surface of the base material; a reflective layer provided along a surface of the first recess; a filling layer filled in the first recess, the filling layer including a top surface on which a second recess is provided; a first electrode provided on an upper layer side of the filling layer; an organic layer comprising a light emitting layer provided on an upper layer side of the first electrode; and a second electrode provided on an upper layer side of the organic layer. Within the organic layer, a part of a light emitting area interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode is positioned inside the second recess The reflective layer is in contact with the first electrode in a periphery of the first recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: SATOSHI INOUE, KATSUHIRO KIKUCHI, HIDEKI UCHIDA, EIJI KOIKE, MASANORI OHARA, YUTO TSUKAMOTO, YOSHIYUKI ISOMURA, KAZUKI MATSUNAGA
  • Patent number: 10143062
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device according to one aspect of the present invention includes: a base material having a top surface on which a recess is provided; a reflective layer provided along at least a surface of the recess; a filling layer filled in the recess via the reflective layer, the filling layer having light transmissivity; a first electrode provided at least on an upper layer side of the filling layer, the first electrode having light transmissivity; an organic layer provided on an upper layer side of the first electrode, the organic layer including at least a light emitting layer; and a second electrode provided on an upper layer side of the organic layer, the second electrode having light transmissivity. The second electrode has a reflectance of 70% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Uchida, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Eiji Koike, Masanori Ohara, Yuto Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Isomura, Kazuki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10103202
    Abstract: In an organic EL element including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a light emitting layer (recombination layer) provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an electron transport layer and an electron injection layer are provided between the light emitting layer and the negative electrode, and are sequentially arranged in the direction from the light emitting layer to the negative electrode. A hole injection layer and a hole transport layer are provided between the light emitting layer and the positive electrode, and are sequentially arranged in the direction from the positive electrode to the light emitting layer. A buffer layer for suppressing the electron trapping properties is provided between the light emitting layer and the hole transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Kawato, Katsuhiro Kikuchi, Satoshi Inoue, Takashi Ochi, Yuhki Kobayashi, Kazuki Matsunaga, Eiichi Matsumoto, Masahiro Ichihara