Patents by Inventor Kenichi Fukuoka

Kenichi Fukuoka 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: 10243145
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 10079343
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device (1) includes: an anode (3); a cathode (4); and an organic thin-film layer (10) interposed between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (10) includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer (5) containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant. The host contains a first host and a second host. The first host includes a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton, the skeleton having 10 to 30 ring-forming atoms not including an atom of a substituent. The second host has an affinity level greater than the affinity level of the first host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20180212152
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide MATSUURA, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9960358
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20170301863
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide MATSUURA, Masakazu FUNAHASHI, Kenichi FUKUOKA, Chishio HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 9728727
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9343682
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9209410
    Abstract: A material for organic electroluminescence devices of the invention which is for use in combination with at least one phosphorescent metal complex has a specific heterocyclic structure. The material for organic electroluminescence devices is used as a host material or a hole transporting material. An organic electroluminescence device having an anode, a cathode and an organic thin film layer having one or more layers which is interposed between the anode and cathode, in which at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic electroluminescence devices, has a high emitting efficiency, causes little pixel defects, is excellent in heat resistance, and shows a long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwakuma, Jun Endo, Masaki Numata, Kenichi Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9174938
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode (10), a cathode (70), an emitting layer (40) including an organic compound, which is between the anode (10) and the cathode (70), two or more layers arranged in a hole injection and transport region which is between the anode (10) and the emitting layer (40), and one or more layers arranged in an electron injection and transport region which is between the emitting layer (40) and the cathode (70), wherein a layer in the hole injection and transport region, which is in contact with the emitting layer (40), includes an aromatic amine derivative having a carbazole skeleton, one of the layers other than the layer in contact with the emitting layer (40) in the hole injection and transport region includes one or more materials selected from the group consisting of thiophene derivatives, tricyclic or more cyclic fused aromatic derivatives, amine derivatives excluding the compound represented by the following formula (A), conductive polymers, CFx, CuPc, transi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yukitoshi Jinde, Hiroyuki Saito, Kenichi Fukuoka, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Yuichiro Kawamura, Masahiro Kawamura, Takashi Arakane
  • Publication number: 20150287929
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahide Matsuura, Masakazu Funahashi, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9082995
    Abstract: An organic EL device (1) includes an anode (3), a cathode (4) and an organic thin-film layer (5) provided between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (5) includes a single-layered mixed-color emitting layer (51) for providing mixed-color emission. The mixed-color emitting layer (51) contains a host, a fluorescent dopant for blue fluorescent emission and a phosphorescent dopant for red or green phosphorescent emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Chishio Hosokawa, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Tetsuya Inoue
  • Patent number: 9054319
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic thin-film layer interposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic thin-film layer includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant, and an electron transporting layer that is provided closer to the cathode than the phosphorescent-emitting layer. The host contains a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Jun Endo, Nobuhiro Yabunouchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8841003
    Abstract: In an organic electroluminescent element comprising an anode layer, an organic luminescent layer, an inorganic compound layer (or reductive dopant layer) and a cathode layer; the organic luminescent layer comprises an aromatic amine compound of a formula (1), and/or an aromatic amine compound of a formula (2) wherein A, B, and Ar1 to Ar6 are independently a C6-60 aromatic group which does not contain a styryl group nor an alkenyl group, at least one of A, Ar1, Ar2, or B, Ar3 to Ar6 contains at least three condensed aromatic rings, and p, q and r of a condensation number are an integer of 1 to 6. The element has significantly long half-life and high luminance even at low driving voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Arakane, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8779655
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes: a cathode; an anode; and a single-layered or multilayered organic thin-film layer provided between the cathode and the anode. The organic thin-film layer includes at least one emitting layer. The at least one emitting layer contains at least one phosphorescent material and a host material represented by the following formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Masahiro Kawamura, Mitsunori Ito, Yoriyuki Takashima, Toshinari Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 8766534
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element comprising: an anode; a first emitting layer comprising at least a first host material and a first dopant; a second emitting layer comprising at least a second host material and a second dopant; and a cathode in the order mentioned: wherein the energy gap Egh1 of the first host material, the energy gap Egd1 of the first dopant, the energy gap Egh2 of the second host material, and the energy gap Egd2 of the second dopant satisfy the following formulas; and the luminescent intensity I1 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the first emitting layer, and the luminescent intensity I2 at the maximum luminescent wavelength of an emission spectrum derived from the second emitting layer satisfy the following formula: Egh1>Egd1 Egh2>Egd2 Egd1>Egd2 I1>3.5×I2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Fukuoka, Masahide Matsuura, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8759819
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic thin-film layer interposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic thin-film layer includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant, and an electron transporting layer that is provided closer to the cathode than the phosphorescent-emitting layer. The host contains a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Jun Endo, Nobuhiro Yabunouchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20140131680
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic thin-film layer interposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic thin-film layer includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant, and an electron transporting layer that is provided closer to the cathode than the phosphorescent-emitting layer. The host contains a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki NISHIMURA, Toshihiro IWAKUMA, Kenichi FUKUOKA, Chishio HOSOKAWA, Jun ENDO, Nobuhiro YABUNOUCHI, Hiroshi YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 8723171
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including opposite anode and cathode, and a hole-transporting region, an emitting layer and an electron-transporting region in sequential order from the anode between the anode and the cathode, wherein the emitting layer includes a red emitting portion, a green emitting portion, and a blue emitting portion; the blue emitting portion includes a host BH and a fluorescent dopant FBD; the triplet energy ETfbd of the fluorescent dopant FBD is larger than the triplet energy ETbh of the host BH; the green emitting portion includes a host GH and a phosphorescent dopant PGD; the electron-transporting region includes a common electron-transporting layer adjacent to the red emitting portion, the green emitting portion and the blue emitting portion; the common electron-transporting layer includes a material having a triplet energy ETel larger than ETbh; and the difference between the affinity of the host GH and the affinity of the material constituting the common electron-transportin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Yuichiro Kawamura, Toshinari Ogiwara, Hitoshi Kuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 8710493
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode and layers between the anode and the cathode, the layers at least including a hole transporting layer, a first emitting layer, a second emitting layer and an electron transporting layer, in which the first emitting layer includes a first host material and a first luminescent material and the second emitting layer is continuously formed on the first emitting layer near the cathode and includes a second host material and a second luminescent material. The second host material is a monoazine derivative, a diazine derivative, or a triazine derivative. The first and second luminescent materials are different metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshinari Ogiwara, Hitoshi Kuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Yukitoshi Jinde
  • Publication number: 20140061627
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device (1) includes: an anode (3); a cathode (4); and an organic thin-film layer (10) interposed between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (10) includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer (5) containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant. The host contains a first host and a second host. The first host includes a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton, the skeleton having 10 to 30 ring-forming atoms not including an atom of a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki NISHIMURA, Toshihiro IWAKUMA, Kenichi FUKUOKA, Chishio HOSOKAWA