Patents by Inventor Kenro Sunahara

Kenro Sunahara 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: 8216750
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a color filter, includes forming a colored coated film on a substrate using a colored composition containing a pigment, a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond and photo-polymerization initiator, irradiating a filter segment-forming region or a black matrix-forming region of the colored coated film with an excimer laser beam having a wavelength of 308 nm (XeCL) at a dosage sufficient to achieve a cumulative light exposure of 1-150 mJ/cm2, thereby curing the irradiated region, removing uncured portions of the colored coated film to form the filter segment or the black matrix, and repeating the above-described steps plural times, thereby forming filter segments of at least two colors and/or a black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Shigemori, Morihide Miyamura, Toshio Waku, Yusuke Iida, Kenro Sunahara, Kohei Matsui, Takeshi Ikeda, Hideyo Tanaka, Eishi Aoki, Genki Harada
  • Patent number: 8049844
    Abstract: A color filter includes red, green and blue filter segments and is adapted to be used in a liquid crystal display device using, as a light source, a white LED having specified spectral properties. The red filter segment has a 50% transmittance wavelength within a range of 595 to 610 nm and a transmittance of 85% or more at a wavelength of 630 nm. The blue filter segment has a maximum transmittance wavelength of 455 nm or less and a transmittance of 55% or more at a wavelength of 450 nm. A thickness of each of the red, green and blue filter segments is 3.0 ?m or less. A liquid crystal display device including this color filter and the white LED is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignees: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Okutsu, Kenro Sunahara, Atsushi Nishida, Yukino Miyagawa, Tomoyuki Kadowaki, Mie Shimizu, Takeshi Itoi, Koichi Minato
  • Publication number: 20100253888
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coloring composition including a pigment, a transparent resin, a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond, and a photo-polymerization initiator, wherein a ratio (M/P) of weight (M) of the monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond to weight (P) of the transparent resin is confined to a range of 0.12 to 1.35, and the coloring composition is adapted to be employed in a manufacturing method of a color filter including coating a surface of a substrate with the coloring composition, irradiating a filter segment-forming region or a black matrix-forming region of the coated coloring composition film with a laser beam having a wavelength of 340 nm to 380 nm, thereby curing the irradiated region, and removing uncured portion of the coated coloring composition film to form the filter segment or the black matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyo Tanaka, Isao Shigemori, Yusuke Iida, Mari Iwasaki, Kenro Sunahara, Morihide Miyamura, Takeshi Ikeda, Eishi Aoki, Genki Harada, Azumi Sato
  • Publication number: 20090311479
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a color filter, includes forming a colored coated film on a substrate using a colored composition containing a pigment, a monomer having an ethylenic unsaturated double bond and photo-polymerization initiator, irradiating a filter segment-forming region or a black matrix-forming region of the colored coated film with an excimer laser beam having a wavelength of 308 nm (XeCL) at a dosage sufficient to achieve a cumulative light exposure of 1-150 mJ/cm2, thereby curing the irradiated region, removing uncured portions of the colored coated film to form the filter segment or the black matrix, and repeating the above-described steps plural times, thereby forming filter segments of at least two colors and/or a black matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Isao Shigemori, Morihide Miyamura, Toshio Waku, Yusuke Iida, Kenro Sunahara, Kohei Matsui, Takeshi Ikeda, Hideyo Tanaka, Eishi Aoki, Genki Harada
  • Publication number: 20090002858
    Abstract: A color filter includes red, green and blue filter segments and is adapted to be used in a liquid crystal display device using, as a light source, a white LED having specified spectral properties. The red filter segment has a 50% transmittance wavelength within a range of 595 to 610 nm and a transmittance of 85% or more at a wavelength of 630 nm. The blue filter segment has a maximum transmittance wavelength of 455 nm or less and a transmittance of 55% or more at a wavelength of 450 nm. A thickness of each of the red, green and blue filter segments is 3.0 ?m or less. A liquid crystal display device including this color filter and the white LED is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Satoshi Okutsu, Kenro Sunahara, Atsushi Nishida, Yukino Miyagawa, Tomoyuki Kadowaki, Mie Shimizu, Takeshi Itoi, Koichi Minato
  • Patent number: 7300608
    Abstract: A blue colored composition for a color filter contains a pigment carrier comprising a transparent resin, a precursor thereof or a mixture thereof, a blue pigment having a specific surface area of 90 to 140 m2/g, and a violet pigment having a specific surface area in a range of 100 to 150 m2/g, but having a greater specific surface area than that of the blue pigment used. A color filter includes a filter segment formed from the blue colored composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignees: Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd., Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenro Sunahara, Mayumi Ogura, Ichiro Toyoda, Takumi Saito, Hidesato Hagiwara, Takeshi Itoi, Hiromitsu Ito
  • Publication number: 20050131114
    Abstract: A blue colored composition for a color filter contains a pigment carrier comprising a transparent resin, a precursor thereof or a mixture thereof, a blue pigment having a specific surface area of 90 to 140 m2/g, and a violet pigment having a specific surface area in a range of 100 to 150 m2/g, but having a greater specific surface area than that of the blue pigment used. A color filter includes a filter segment formed from the blue colored composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Applicants: TOYO INK MFG. CO., LTD., TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenro Sunahara, Mayumi Ogura, Ichiro Toyoda, Takumi Saito, Hidesato Hagiwara, Takeshi Itoi, Hiromitsu Ito