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).

  • Publication number: 20070111029
    Abstract: The organic light-emitting device capable of emitting light with remarkably high efficiency and luminance by using a fluorene compound having substituents is provided, and at least one layer among the organic compound layers in the device contains a first compound and a second compound, and the first compound is a fluorene compound represented by the following general formula (III) and the second compound is a compound represented by the following general formula (IV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: NAOKI YAMADA, AKIHITO SAITOH, KEIJI OKINAKA, MASATAKA YASHIMA, AKIHIRO SENOO, KAZUNORI UENO
  • Publication number: 20070029539
    Abstract: There is provided a light-emitting element array having a plurality of light-emitting elements of different emission colors each comprising a light extraction electrode, a reflecting electrode, and an organic layer disposed between the electrodes, said organic layer comprising a light-emitting layer and a carrier-transporting layer disposed between the light-emitting layer and the reflecting electrode, wherein the geometrical distances between the reflecting electrode and light-emitting layer are the same irrespective of the emission color, and the specific relational equations (1), (2), and (3) are satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: MASATAKA YASHIMA, Keiji Okinaka, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada, Toshinori Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 7173131
    Abstract: An anthryl derivative group substituted compound having a specific chemical structure is provided. This compound is used for producing an organic luminescent device which can emit luminescent hues with a very high purity and effect light emission with a high luminescence efficiency and a long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20060267488
    Abstract: An anthryl derivative group substituted compound having a specific chemical structure is provided. This compound is used for producing an organic luminescent device which can emit luminescent hues with a very high purity and effect light emission with a high luminescence efficiency and a long lifetime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20060255723
    Abstract: There is disclosed a substituted anthryl derivative is represented by the following general formula (1). The use of the substituted anthryl derivative allows the production of an organic electroluminescence device showing an extremely pure luminescence hue, and an optical output with high luminous efficiency, high luminance, and long life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7129386
    Abstract: There is disclosed a substituted anthryl derivative is represented by the following general formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060125378
    Abstract: There is provided an aminoanthryl derivative substitution compound represented by the following general formula (1). The compound according to the present invention can provide an organic electroluminescence device showing an extremely pure luminescence hue, and an optical output with high efficiency, high luminance, and long life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20060121312
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fluorene compound having a novel substituent, and the fluorene compound is represented by the following formula [1]:
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Masataka Yashima, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20060115678
    Abstract: There is provided an aminoanthryl derivative-substituted pyrene compound represented by the following general formula (1). The compound is useful as a compound for an organic light-emitting device exhibiting highly pure luminescent color, and an optical output with high efficiency, high luminance, and long life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Naoki Yamada, Masataka Yashima, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20060113528
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device is provided which has an optical output with a high efficiency, a high luminance and a long life and which includes a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, and at least one layer comprising an organic compound provided between the pair of electrodes, wherein at least one layer having a light-emitting region of the at least one layer comprising the organic compound comprises a first compound represented by the general formula (1): and a second compound having a bandgap larger than a bandgap of the first compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Masataka Yashima, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20060097227
    Abstract: A novel phenanthroline compound is provided which is represented by the general formula [I]: (wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are the same or different and each is selected from a hydrogen atom, an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aralkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted aryl group, an unsubstituted or substituted heterocyclic group, and a halogen atom; and Ar1 and Ar2 are the same or different and each is selected from an unsubstituted or substituted fluorenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted fluoranthenyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted perylenyl group, and an unsubstituted or substituted carbazolyl group). An organic light emitting device using the phenanthroline compound is also provided that has a light output with a high efficiency and a high luminance and has a high long-term durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Maki Okajima, Tatsundo Kawai, Takao Takiguchi, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Toshinori Haseqawa, Keiji Okinaka
  • Patent number: 7034454
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light emitting device to break through the limit of 25% of internal quantum efficiency and 5% of external quantum efficiency while using singlet luminescence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Koichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Tanabe, Keiji Okinaka, Naoki Yamada, Chika Negishi, Akihito Saito, Maki Okajima
  • Publication number: 20060017376
    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: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Akihito Saitoh, Naoki Yamada, Masataka Yashima, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Patent number: 6985259
    Abstract: When one-to-one correspondence is made between each pixel of an original image and each element of a threshold matrix, a density of each pixel in an output image is represented by binary or multivalue, and a dot pattern of which the size corresponds to the threshold matrix is divided into small blocks, the threshold matrix is created such that the number of dots in each of all the blocks is made equal in all gray levels, the dot patterns in the plural blocks are made mutually the same in all the gray levels, and at a boundary of the blocks where the dot patterns are made mutually the same, the dots are increased while taking conformity of the dot patterns, or the threshold matrix is created such that order of dot increase is controlled between the blocks where the dot patterns are made mutually the same and the other blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Takashi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20050236977
    Abstract: A novel substituted fluorene compound is provided which is represented by the general formula [I]:
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo
  • Publication number: 20050099115
    Abstract: There is disclosed a substituted anthryl derivative is represented by the following general formula (1). The use of the substituted anthryl derivative allows the production of an organic electroluminescence device showing an extremely pure luminescence hue, and an optical output with high luminous efficiency, high luminance, and long life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: May 12, 2005
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka, Koichi Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20040263067
    Abstract: An anthryl derivative group substituted compound having a specific chemical structure is provided. This compound is used for producing an organic luminescent device which can emit luminescent hues with a very high purity and effect light emission with a high luminescence efficiency and a long lifetime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno, Keiji Okinaka
  • Publication number: 20040265632
    Abstract: Provided is an organic electroluminescent device having a high-efficiency optical output with high luminance and long life, which includes at least: a pair of electrodes comprising an anode and a cathode; and one or more organic-compound-containing layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes, and in which among the organic-compound-containing layers, at least one layer having a light-emitting region contains a first compound represented by the following general formula [1] and a second compound having a band gap larger than a band gap of the first compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Akihito Saitoh, Koichi Suzuki, Akihiro Senoo, Kazunori Ueno
  • Publication number: 20040150327
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light emitting device to break through the limit of 25% of internal quantum efficiency and 5% of external quantum efficiency while using singlet luminescence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsundo Kawai, Koichi Suzuki, Hiroshi Tanabe, Keiji Okinaka, Naoki Yamada, Chika Negishi, Akihito Saito, Maki Okajima
  • Publication number: 20040051447
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent display includes an organic electroluminescent device, having a microcavity structure, for emitting light resonating in the microcavity structure; a light-shielding layer having an opening through which a portion of the light emitted from the organic electroluminescent device passes; and a light-gathering structure, disposed between the organic electroluminescent device and the light-shielding layer, for gathering the light emitted from the organic electroluminescent device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Okinaka, Hikaru Hoshi