Patents by Inventor Keiji Okinaka

Keiji Okinaka 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: 9331296
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide a blue organic light-emitting device having a continuous operation lifetime. An organic light-emitting device includes a light-emitting layer containing a dopant having the ability to trap electrons or holes, and a hole-blocking layer or electron-blocking layer, in which the difference between the LUMO of the dopant and the LUMO of a host material, the size relationship between the HOMO of the host material and the HOMO of the dopant, and the difference between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the hole-blocking layer or between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the electron-blocking layer, are specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Maki Okajima, Keiji Okinaka, Tetsuo Takahashi, Hajime Muta, Yohei Iwasaki, Minako Nakasu, Naoki Yamada, Yosuke Nishide
  • Patent number: 9312494
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device with enhanced durability during continuous driving. The organic light emitting device includes: an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer being placed between the anode and the cathode and including at least a hole transport layer and an emission layer, in which: the emission layer contains a blue light emitting material; the hole transport layer contains a plurality of kinds of organic compounds; and an organic compound having the smallest ionization potential among the organic compounds includes a compound having no absorption spectrum peak in a blue color wavelength region in a radical cation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Minako Nakasu, Masataka Yashima, Hajime Muta, Keiji Okinaka, Tomona Yamaguchi, Tomonari Horikiri, Maki Okajima, Naoki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160028025
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes an organic electroluminescence device, a first color conversion portion that transmits a first color light, and a second color conversion portion that transmits a second color light. The organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and one or more organic layers interposed between the anode and the cathode. At least one of the organic layer(s) is an emitting layer including a host material and a dopant material that emits light including the first color light and the second color light. A difference ?ST(D) between singlet energy EgS(D) of the dopant material and an energy gap Eg77K(D) at 77K of the dopant material satisfies Numerical Formula 1 below, ?ST(D)=EgS(D)?Eg77K(D)<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinari OGIWARA, Yoshikazu TANAKA, Keiji OKINAKA
  • Patent number: 8808875
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-performance organic EL device and a novel compound used for the device. The novel compound of the present invention is a fluoranthene compound having the following general formula (2): The organic EL device of the present invention is an organic EL device comprising: an anode; a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic compound layer has the fluoranthene compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Satoshi Igawa, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8691398
    Abstract: To provide a compound excellent in light emitting properties and an organic light emitting device having the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Chika Negishi, Keiji Okinaka, Minako Nakasu
  • Patent number: 8519613
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains an organic compound emitting photoluminescent light with a peak wavelength of 430 to 480 nm. The organic compound has a profile factor of 0.02 or less at a wave number of 1,300 to 1,680 cm?1 as calculated from Huang-Rhys factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Isao Kawata, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Hiroyuki Tomono, Kengo Kishino, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, Keiji Okinaka
  • Patent number: 8404363
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic light emitting device having a long-life optical output. The organic light emitting device according to the present invention is provided with an emission layer including at least a host material, a light emitting material, and another material, wherein the another material has a smaller ionization potential than and almost the same hole mobility as or a greater hole mobility than an ionization potential and a hole mobility of a compound which forms an emission layer-side-interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada, Masataka Yashima, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 8384286
    Abstract: A novel mono(benzo[k]fluoranthene) compound having a molecular structure containing at least one condensed ring aromatic group which is tricyclic or more at any of 7- to 9-positions of benzo[k]fluoranthene. Also an organic light emitting device including at least a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound, the layer being interposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the layer formed of an organic compound contains a compound represented by the following structural formula. An organic light emitting device in which the layer is a light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto, Keiji Okinaka, Chika Nishi, Akihito Saitoh, Takao Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 8354788
    Abstract: An organic light emitting device having long continuous driving lifetime is provided. The organic light emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an emission layer formed of an organic compound arranged between the anode and the cathode, in which the emission layer includes a light emitting material and a material having a smallest ionization potential, and an absorption spectrum in a radical cation state of the material having the smallest ionization potential in the emission layer does not have its absorption peak in an emission wavelength region of the light emitting material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Masataka Yashima, Maki Okajima, Hajime Muta
  • Publication number: 20130001542
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention provide a blue organic light-emitting device having a continuous operation lifetime. An organic light-emitting device includes a light-emitting layer containing a dopant having the ability to trap electrons or holes, and a hole-blocking layer or electron-blocking layer, in which the difference between the LUMO of the dopant and the LUMO of a host material, the size relationship between the HOMO of the host material and the HOMO of the dopant, and the difference between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the hole-blocking layer or between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the electron-blocking layer, are specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maki Okajima, Keiji Okinaka, Tetsuo Takahashi, Hajime Muta, Yohei Iwasaki, Minako Nakasu, Naoki Yamada, Yosuke Nishide
  • Patent number: 8318395
    Abstract: Provided is a novel dibenzo[a,c]anthracene compound having substituents, which can be used in an organic light emitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto, Masanori Muratsubaki, Takao Takiguchi, Akihiro Senoo, Shinjiro Okada, Minako Nakasu
  • Patent number: 8318321
    Abstract: There are provided a compound represented by the general formula (1) and an organic light-emitting device which comprises the compound and has an optical output with remarkably high efficiency and high luminance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Keiji Okinaka, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8288017
    Abstract: There are provided a novel fused ring aromatic compound and an organic light-emitting device which has an optical output with extremely high efficiency and luminance, and also has extremely high durability. The organic light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the layer comprises a fused ring aromatic compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, and R16 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group, or a halogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20120205639
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device with enhanced durability during continuous driving. The organic light emitting device includes: an anode, a cathode, and an organic compound layer being placed between the anode and the cathode and including at least a hole transport layer and an emission layer, in which: the emission layer contains a blue light emitting material; the hole transport layer contains a plurality of kinds of organic compounds; and an organic compound having the smallest ionization potential among the organic compounds includes a compound having no absorption spectrum peak in a blue color wavelength region in a radical cation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minako Nakasu, Masataka Yashima, Hajime Muta, Keiji Okinaka, Tomona Yamaguchi, Tomonari Horikiri, Maki Okajima, Naoki Yamada
  • Patent number: 8227094
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device for emitting blue light, which has high luminous efficiency and good drive durability. This organic electroluminescent device for emitting blue light includes an anode 2, a cathode 6, and a layer which contains an organic compound interposed between the anode 2 and the cathode 6, the layer which contains an organic compound including at least a light-emitting layer 4, wherein the light-emitting layer 4 contains a bipolar host having a hole mobility and an electron mobility of 10?4 cm2/Vs or greater, a light-emitting dopant and a carrier trapping dopant, and the light-emitting dopant energy gap EgB, the bipolar host energy gap Egh, and the carrier trapping dopant energy gap Egd are such that Egd>Egh>EgB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Masataka Yashima, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120085996
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains an organic compound emitting photoluminescent light with a peak wavelength of 430 to 480 nm. The organic compound has a profile factor of 0.02 or less at a wave number of 1,300 to 1,680 cm?1 as calculated from Huang-Rhys factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Isao Kawata, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Hiroyuki Tomono, Kengo Kishino, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20120056172
    Abstract: There is provided a green-light-emitting device which has a high emission efficiency and a long continuous operational life, and which includes a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode; and a layer including an organic compound disposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the layer includes a first compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, and R16 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group, or a halogen atom; and a second compound with a pyrene skeleton or a fluorene skeleton having an energy gap larger than an energy gap of the first compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20120043535
    Abstract: A novel mono(benzo[k]fluoranthene) compound having a molecular structure containing at least one condensed ring aromatic group which is tricyclic or more at any of 7- to 9-positions of benzo[k]fluoranthene. Also an organic light emitting device including at least a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound, the layer being interposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the layer formed of an organic compound contains a compound represented by the following structural formula. An organic light emitting device in which the layer is a light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto, Keiji Okinaka, Chika Negishi, Akihito Saitoh, Takao Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 8102116
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains an organic compound emitting photoluminescent light with a peak wavelength of 430 to 480 nm. The organic compound has a profile factor of 0.02 or less at a wave number of 1,300 to 1,680 cm?1 as calculated from Huang-Rhys factors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Isao Kawata, Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Hiroyuki Tomono, Kengo Kishino, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, Keiji Okinaka
  • Patent number: 8084147
    Abstract: There is provided a green-light-emitting device which has a high emission efficiency and a long continuous operational life, and which includes a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode; and a layer including an organic compound disposed between the pair of electrodes, wherein the layer includes a first compound represented by the general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, and R16 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aralkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group, or a halogen atom; and a second compound with a pyrene skeleton or a fluorene skeleton having an energy gap larger than an energy gap of the first compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Keiji Okinaka