Patents by Inventor Kensuke Yoshizumi

Kensuke Yoshizumi 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: 20240143109
    Abstract: A convenient electronic device or the like is provided. The power consumption of an electronic device or the like is reduced. An electronic device or the like having high visibility regardless of the brightness of external light is provided. An electronic device or the like that can display both a smooth moving image and an eye-friendly still image is provided. Such an electronic device is an electronic device including a first display portion, a second display portion, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to make the first display portion and the second display portion individually display two or more of a first image, a second image, and a third image at a time. The first image is displayed with reflected light, the second image is displayed with emitted light, and the third image is displayed with light including both reflected light and emitted light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240136442
    Abstract: A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, and a first conductive layer. The first insulating layer is provided over the semiconductor layer. The first conductive layer is provided over the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region that overlaps with the first conductive layer and the first insulating layer, a second region that does not overlap with the first conductive layer and overlaps with the first insulating layer, and a third region that overlaps with neither the first conductive layer nor the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer contains a metal oxide. The second region and the third region contain a first element. The first element is one or more elements selected from boron, phosphorus, aluminum, and magnesium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichi OKAZAKI, Masami JINTYOU, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11951769
    Abstract: Space-saving in an automobile or the like provided with a battery is achieved. Design flexibility of an automobile or the like can be improved. An electric power control method or an electric power control system capable of utilizing electric power efficiently is provided. It is an electric power control system of an automobile including a car body, a first battery, a second battery, and a control unit. The control unit obtains states of charge of the first battery and the second battery, determines whether or not a difference between remaining capacities of the first battery and the second battery exceeds a predetermined value, and controls transmission of electric power between the first battery and the second battery, in the case where the difference in the remaining capacities exceeds the predetermined value, to be made such that the remaining capacities are close to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshizumi, Ryota Tajima
  • Patent number: 11950474
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliable display device. In particular, a display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. Further, a bendable display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. The display device includes, over a flexible substrate, a display portion, a plurality of connection terminals to which a signal from an outside can be input, and a plurality of wirings. One of the plurality of wirings electrically connects one of the plurality of connection terminals to the display portion. The one of the plurality of wirings includes a first portion including a plurality of separate lines and a second portion in which the plurality of lines converge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20240107854
    Abstract: The thickness of a display device including a touch sensor is reduced. Alternatively, the thickness of a display device having high display quality is reduced. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing a display device with high mass productivity is provided. Alternatively, a display device having high reliability is provided. Stacked substrates in each of which a sufficiently thin substrate and a relatively thick support substrate are stacked are used as substrates. One surface of the thin substrate of one of the stacked substrates is provided with a layer including a touch sensor, and one surface of the thin substrate of the other stacked substrate is provided with a layer including a display element. After the two stacked substrates are attached to each other so that the touch sensor and the display element face each other, the support substrate and the thin substrate of each stacked substrate are separated from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Publication number: 20240107865
    Abstract: Manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device with which steps from formation to sealing of a light-emitting element can be successively performed is provided. With the manufacturing equipment for a light-emitting device, a deposition step, a lithography step, and an etching step for forming an organic EL element and a sealing step by formation of a protective layer can be successively performed. Accordingly, a downscaled organic EL element with high luminance and high reliability can be formed. Moreover, the manufacturing equipment can have an in-line system where apparatuses are arranged in the order of process steps for the light-emitting device, resulting in high throughput manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Hiroki ADACHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Naoto KUSUMOTO, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11923372
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is described, which includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor and the capacitor are provided over the first transistor so as to overlap with a gate of the first transistor. A semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a dielectric layer of the capacitor are directly connected to the gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a vertical transistor, where its channel direction is perpendicular to an upper surface of a semiconductor layer of the first transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 11922091
    Abstract: Provided is a display device or a display system capable of displaying images along a curved surface, a display device or a display system capable of displaying images seamlessly in the form of a ring, or a display device or a display system that is suitable for increasing in size. The display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes a first part and a second part and is flexible. The first part can display images. The second part can transmit visible light. The display panel is curved so that the second part and the first part overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshizumi, Yuichi Yanagisawa, Kei Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20240057462
    Abstract: Manufacturing equipment of a display device that is capable of successively performing steps from formation of a pixel circuit up to formation of a light-emitting element is provided. The manufacturing equipment includes a manufacturing apparatus of a light-emitting device that is capable of successively performing a film formation step, a lithography step, an etching step, and a sealing step for formation of an organic EL element and a manufacturing apparatus for formation of a pixel circuit that drives the organic EL element. Formation from the pixel circuit up to the organic EL element can be performed successively, so that a display device with a high yield and high reliability can be formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Hiroki ADACHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Naoto KUSUMOTO, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20240057464
    Abstract: Manufacturing equipment of a light-emitting device with which steps from formation to sealing of a light-emitting element can be successively performed can be provided. In the manufacturing equipment of a light-emitting device, a deposition step, a lithography step, an etching step, and a sealing step by forming a protective layer for forming an organic EL element can be successively performed, whereby a downscaled organic EL element achieving high luminance and high reliability can be formed. Moreover, the manufacturing equipment can have an in-line system where apparatuses are arranged in the order of process steps for the light-emitting device, resulting in high throughput manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Hiroki ADACHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Yasumasa YAMANE, Naoto KUSUMOTO, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 11892878
    Abstract: An electronic device has a structure in which two portions between which a bent portion of a display panel is positioned are each fixed to a housing. The electronic device takes two forms of a form in which the display panel is opened and a form in which the display panel is folded in three. The electronic device includes a mechanism for sliding two housings parallel to each other. The display panel is changed in shape so that a portion where a display surface of the display panel is convexly curved and a portion where the display surface of the display panel is concavely curved in the folded state move in directions parallel and opposite to each other. At this time, the two portions of the display panel which are supported by the housings are slid while their display surfaces maintain a state parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 11887972
    Abstract: A display device with a high luminance, a high contrast, and low power consumption is provided. The display device includes a transistor, a light-emitting element, a coloring layer, a phosphor layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The light-emitting element is electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode is electrically connected to the transistor, and the second electrode is positioned on the same plane as the first electrode. The coloring layer is positioned over the light-emitting element, the phosphor layer is positioned between the light-emitting element and the coloring layer, and the phosphor layer, the light-emitting element, and the coloring layer include a region in which they overlap with one another. The light-emitting element includes a light-emitting diode chip, and the phosphor layer has a function of emitting light of a complementary color of an emission color of the light-emitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kusunoki, Yosuke Tsukamoto, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20240023371
    Abstract: A novel method for fabricating a display apparatus is provided. An anode is formed over an insulating layer, an EL layer is formed over the anode, and a cathode is formed over the EL layer. A plurality of light-emitting elements are formed without provision of a partition by selectively removing parts of the anode, the EL layer, and the cathode. A conductive layer having a light-transmitting property is formed to cover the plurality of light-emitting elements. The cathodes of the plurality of light-emitting elements are electrically connected to the conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Shingo EGUCHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Koji KUSUNOKI, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11874994
    Abstract: A convenient electronic device or the like is provided. The power consumption of an electronic device or the like is reduced. An electronic device or the like having high visibility regardless of the brightness of external light is provided. An electronic device or the like that can display both a smooth moving image and an eye-friendly still image is provided. Such an electronic device is an electronic device including a first display portion, a second display portion, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to make the first display portion and the second display portion individually display two or more of a first image, a second image, and a third image at a time. The first image is displayed with reflected light, the second image is displayed with emitted light, and the third image is displayed with light including both reflected light and emitted light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 11870042
    Abstract: A sensor element with excellent characteristics is provided. An electronic device including a power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A vehicle including a power storage system with excellent characteristics is provided. A novel semiconductor device is provided. The power storage system includes a storage battery, a neural network, and a sensor element; the neural network includes an input layer, an output layer, and one or a plurality of middle layers provided between the input layer and the output layer; a value corresponding to a first signal output from the sensor element is supplied to the input layer; the first signal is an analog signal; the sensor element includes a region in contact with a surface of the storage battery; and the sensor element has a function of measuring one or both of strain and temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mayumi Mikami, Ryota Tajima, Hideaki Shishido, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20230422592
    Abstract: Manufacturing equipment of a light-emitting device with which steps from formation to sealing of a light-emitting element can be successively performed is provided. The manufacturing equipment includes a vacuum controlled cluster and an atmosphere controlled cluster and has a function of forming the light-emitting device by forming, over a substrate provided with a first electrode, an island-shaped organic compound over the first electrode, a second electrode over the organic compound, and a protective film over the second electrode through a plurality of film formation steps in the vacuum cluster, a lithography step in the atmosphere controlled cluster, and an etching step in the vacuum cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Shingo EGUCHI, Hiroki ADACHI, Kenichi OKAZAKI, Naoto KUSUMOTO, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230409264
    Abstract: A display device with a novel structure, a display system with a novel structure, or operation methods of them is/are provided. The operation method of the display system including a first display device and a second display device includes the following steps: a first step of connecting the first display device and the second display device by wireless communication; a second step of transmitting first image data displayed on the first display device to the second display device; a third step of displaying, on the second display device, second image data obtained by processing at least part of the first image data; a fourth step of stopping display on the first display device; and a fifth step of processing the second image data in accordance with a manipulation with the second display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Hajime KIMURA, Yoshiaki OIKAWA, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11844260
    Abstract: The thickness of a display device including a touch sensor is reduced. Alternatively, the thickness of a display device having high display quality is reduced. Alternatively, a method for manufacturing a display device with high mass productivity is provided. Alternatively, a display device having high reliability is provided. Stacked substrates in each of which a sufficiently thin substrate and a relatively thick support substrate are stacked are used as substrates. One surface of the thin substrate of one of the stacked substrates is provided with a layer including a touch sensor, and one surface of the thin substrate of the other stacked substrate is provided with a layer including a display element. After the two stacked substrates are attached to each other so that the touch sensor and the display element face each other, the support substrate and the thin substrate of each stacked substrate are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Publication number: 20230395609
    Abstract: A semiconductor device is described, which includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor and the capacitor are provided over the first transistor so as to overlap with a gate of the first transistor. A semiconductor layer of the second transistor and a dielectric layer of the capacitor are directly connected to the gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a vertical transistor, where its channel direction is perpendicular to an upper surface of a semiconductor layer of the first transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kensuke YOSHIZUMI
  • Patent number: 11837112
    Abstract: A display device or a driving support system which enables a driver to obtain information easily is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is unlikely to impose a burden on a driver is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is suitable for space saving is provided. A display device or a driving support system which is capable of large-area display is provided. A display device or a driving support system which does not impair the aesthetic appearance of the car interior is provided. The display device includes a display panel which has flexibility and can be transformed between a first form and a second form, and a driving means having a function of reversibly changing the display panel between the first form and the second form. The first form is a form in which a display surface of the display panel is suspended, and the second form is a form in which the display panel is stored upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kensuke Yoshizumi, Ryota Tajima