Patents by Inventor Kazuki Okabe

Kazuki Okabe 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: 8618530
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a conjugated polymer which has a high hole transportability and is excellent in solubility and depositability. Another object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence element which is capable of low voltage driving and has a high luminous efficiency and drive stability. The conjugated polymer of the present invention is a conjugated polymer containing a specific structure as the repeating unit, where the conjugated polymer contains an insolubilizing group as a substituent, the weight average molecular weight (Mw) is 20,000 or more and the dispersity (Mw/Mn) is 2.40 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Kyoko Endo, Koichiro Iida, Kazuki Okabe, Hideki Gorohmaru
  • Publication number: 20130334512
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent element which comprises two or more hole injection/transport layers each formed by a wet film formation method using a composition containing, as a hole-injecting/transporting compound, an arylamine polymer compound that has a repeating unit having a triarylamine structure therein, in which when the number of atoms present on the path which is the smallest in the number of atoms present thereon, of the paths which each connect the nonaromatic tertiary nitrogen atoms contained in any two triarylamine structures present in each polymer compound, is taken as N: the minimum number of atoms between nitrogen atoms in the compound, then the N in each hole injection/transport layer is in a specific state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiro ABE, Futoshi Tanaka, Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Koichiro Iida, Ichiro Imada
  • Patent number: 8610112
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a charge-transporting polymer having high hole-transporting ability and excellent solubility and film-forming properties and a composition for organic electroluminescent element which contains the charge-transporting polymer. Another subject for the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element which has a high current efficiency and high driving stability. The charge-transporting polymer comprises a group represented by the following formula (1) as a side chain: wherein in formula (1), the benzocyclobutene ring may have one or more substituents. The substituents may be bonded to each other to form a ring. The spacer represents a group which links the benzocyclobutene ring to the main chain of the charge-transporting polymer through three or more single bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Haruhiko Kusaka, Kyoko Endo, Yanjun Li, Kazuki Okabe
  • Patent number: 8581241
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polymer compound having a high hole transport capacity, excellent in electrochemical stability, and suitable to film formation according to a wet film formation method. Another object of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence element having a high current efficiency, a low drive voltage, and a long derive lifetime. The polymer compound has a crosslinking group bonding to the arylamine moiety in the repeating unit via at least one single bond therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Kyoko Endo, Yanjun Li, Kazuki Okabe, Masayoshi Yabe
  • Publication number: 20130134402
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescence element which comprises an anode, a luminescent layer, two or more electron transport layers and a cathode, in this order, wherein at least one of the two or more electron transport layers adjoins the luminescent layer, the luminescent layer contains a luminescent material and a charge transport material, the electron transport layer which adjoins the luminescent layer contains a charge transport material, the charge transport material contained in the luminescent layer and the charge transport material contained in the electron transport layer which adjoins the luminescent layer may be the same material or may be different material, and the specific electron affinities EA1, EA2 and EA3, and the specific work function WF satisfy the specific relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Futoshi Tanaka, Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20130020562
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polymer compound having a high hole transport capacity, excellent in electrochemical stability, and suitable to film formation according to a wet film formation method. Another object of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence element having a high current efficiency, a low drive voltage, and a long derive lifetime. The polymer compound has a crosslinking group bonding to the arylamine moiety in the repeating unit via at least one single bond therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Koichiro IIDA, Kyoko Endo, Yanjun Li, Kazuki Okabe, Masayoshi Yabe
  • Patent number: 8222807
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescence device that can suppress rise in the driving voltage at the time of constant-current energization and degradation in brightness at the time of energization, and thus excels in its driving lifetime, the organic electroluminescence device comprises: a substrate; an anode and a cathode overlying the substrate; and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the anode and the cathode, and the plurality of organic layers comprise at least: a first layer formed by means of polymerization of a polymerizable compound; and a second layer disposed adjacently to the first layer and containing a polymerization initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ogata, Kazuki Okabe, Koichiro Iida, Masayoshi Yabe
  • Publication number: 20120091443
    Abstract: A composition for use in an organic device, useful in producing an organic device, such as an organic electroluminescent element, having high operation stability, is a composition for use in an organic device that contains at least two cross-linking compounds, at least two of the cross-linking compounds having different numbers of cross-linking groups. A polymer film produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds. An organic electroluminescent element that includes an anode and a cathode on a substrate and at least one organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the at least one organic layer is a layer that is produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki OKABE, Tomoyuki OGATA, Koichiro IIDA
  • Publication number: 20120037894
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element having a long working life, which has a luminescent layer containing an arylamine compound and formed by a wet film formation method, and an organic EL display and an organic EL lighting which each are equipped with the electroluminescence element. In addition, a process for producing an organic electroluminescence element having a long working life, which has a luminescent layer containing an arylamine compound and formed by a wet film formation method. The organic electroluminescence element contains a first electrode, a second electrode formed so as to be opposed to the first electrode, and a luminescent layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the luminescent layer contains an arylamine compound, and the luminescent layer was formed by a wet film formation in an environment shielded from light having a wavelength shorter than 500 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuki OKABE
  • Patent number: 8022617
    Abstract: An organic compound having excellent heat resistance, an excellent amorphous nature, an excellent ability to transport charges, highly excited singlet and triplet states, and excellent solubility in an organic solvent is an organic compound represented by Formula (I): wherein Ar1 represents an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or an optionally-substituted alkyl group; Ar2 represents an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group; R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R1 and R2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring; and Q is represented by Formula (I-1) or (I-2): wherein Ar3 to Ar5 each represent an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group, and Ar3 and Ar4 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Yuichiro Kawamura, Tomoyuki Ogata, Masayoshi Yabe, Misako Okabe, Masako Takeuchi, Kazuki Okabe
  • Publication number: 20110215312
    Abstract: A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED?, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET? satisfy the following condition: ET?+0.1?ED?<ET+?ED+?0.1 or ED?+0.1?ET?<ED+?ET+?0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayoshi YABE, Tomoyuki OGATA, Hideki SATO, Koichiro IIDA, Asato TANAKA, Mitsuru TANAMURA, Yuichiro KAWAMURA, Hironori ISHIKAWA, Kazuki OKABE
  • Publication number: 20110198573
    Abstract: A subject for the invention is to provide a charge-transporting polymer having high hole-transporting ability and excellent solubility and film-forming properties and a composition for organic electroluminescent element which contains the charge-transporting polymer. Another subject for the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element which has a high current efficiency and high driving stability. The charge-transporting polymer comprises a group represented by the following formula (1) as a side chain: wherein in formula (1), the benzocyclobutene ring may have one or more substituents. The substituents may be bonded to each other to form a ring. The spacer represents a group which links the benzocyclobutene ring to the main chain of the charge-transporting polymer through three or more single bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Haruhiko Kusaka, Kyoko Endo, Yanjun Li, Kazuki Okabe
  • Publication number: 20110114926
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescent element having a low driving voltage, high current efficiency and high voltage efficiency. An organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode, a cathode and an organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic layer comprises a mixed layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and/or a charge-transporting low molecular compound in a film containing an insolubilized polymer obtained by insolubilizing an insolubilizing polymer, and, adjacent to the mixed layer, a layer containing a light-emitting low molecular compound and a charge-transporting low molecular compound and not containing an insolubilized polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Kazuki Okabe, Atsushi Takahashi, Tomohiro Abe, Yasuyuki Tsurutani, Hideki Sato
  • Publication number: 20110108814
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a polymer compound having a high hole transport capacity, excellent in electrochemical stability, and suitable to film formation according to a wet film formation method. Another object of the invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence element having a high current efficiency, a low drive voltage, and a long derive lifetime. The polymer compound has a crosslinking group bonding to the arylamine moiety in the repeating unit via at least one single bond therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro Iida, Kyoko Endo, Yanjun Li, Kazuki Okabe, Masayoshi Yabe
  • Publication number: 20110042661
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a conjugated polymer which has a high hole transportability and is excellent in solubility and depositability. Another object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence element which is capable of low voltage driving and has a high luminous efficiency and drive stability. The conjugated polymer of the present invention is a conjugated polymer containing a specific structure as the repeating unit, where the conjugated polymer contains an insolubilizing group as a substituent, the weight average molecular weight (Mw) is 20,000 or more and the dispersity (Mw/Mn) is 2.40 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyoko Endo, Koichiro Iida, Kazuki Okabe, Hideki Gorohmaru
  • Publication number: 20100090590
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescence device that can suppress rise in the driving voltage at the time of constant-current energization and degradation in brightness at the time of energization, and thus excels in its driving lifetime, the organic electroluminescence device comprises: a substrate; an anode and a cathode overlying the substrate; and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the anode and the cathode, and the plurality of organic layers comprise at least: a first layer formed by means of polymerization of a polymerizable compound; and a second layer disposed adjacently to the first layer and containing a polymerization initiator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Ogata, Kazuki Okabe, Koichiro Iida, Masayoshi Yabe
  • Publication number: 20100045174
    Abstract: A composition for use in an organic device, useful in producing an organic device, such as an organic electroluminescent element, having high operation stability, is a composition for use in an organic device that contains at least two cross-linking compounds, at least two of the cross-linking compounds having different numbers of cross-linking groups. A polymer film produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds. An organic electroluminescent element that includes an anode and a cathode on a substrate and at least one organic layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein at least one of the at least one organic layer is a layer that is produced by forming a film of the composition for use in an organic device and then polymerizing the cross-linking compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Okabe, Tomoyuki Ogata, Koichiro Iida
  • Publication number: 20090284134
    Abstract: An organic compound having excellent heat resistance, an excellent amorphous nature, an excellent ability to transport charges, highly excited singlet and triplet states, and excellent solubility in an organic solvent is an organic compound represented by Formula (I): wherein Ar1 represents an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group, or an optionally-substituted alkyl group; Ar2 represents an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group; R1 and R2 each represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R1 and R2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring; and Q is represented by Formula (I-1) or (I-2): wherein Ar3 to Ar5 each represent an optionally-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or an optionally-substituted aromatic heterocyclic group, and Ar3 and Ar4 may be bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Koichiro IIDA, Yuichiro Kawamura, Tomoyuki Ogata, Masayoshi Yabe, Misako Okake, Masako Takeuchi, Kazuki Okabe
  • Publication number: 20090066223
    Abstract: A composition for an organic electroluminescent device is a composition for forming an organic light emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device by wet coating process. The composition contains a phosphorescent material, a charge transport material, and a solvent, in which the phosphorescent material and the charge transport material are each an unpolymerized organic compound, and the first oxidation potential of the phosphorescent material ED+, the first reduction potential of the phosphorescent material ED?, the first oxidation potential of the charge transporting material ET+, and the first reduction potential of the charge transporting material ET? satisfy the following condition: ET?+0.1?ED?<ET+?ED+?0.1 or ED?+0.1?ET?<ED+?ET+0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2006
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Yabe, Tomoyuki Ogata, Hideki Sato, Koichiro Iida, Asato Tanaka, Mitsuru Tanamura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Hironori Ishikawa, Kazuki Okabe
  • Patent number: 5899636
    Abstract: A reversible lining tube for repairing an existing pipeline is reversible into the existing pipeline so that its initial inner surface becomes its outer surface which adheres to the internal surface of the pipeline. In detail, the reversible lining tube includes an elastomer layer and a flock layer, prior to reversal into the existing pipeline the elastomer layer is an outer layer and the flock layer is an inner layer, upon reversal into the existing pipeline the elastomer layer becomes an inner layer and the flock layer becomes an outer layer which adheres to the internal surface of the existing pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignees: Tokyo Gas Co. Ltd., Nisshinbo Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Shigeru Toyoda, Shuichi Yagi, Masaaki Itagaki, Kazuki Okabe