Patents by Inventor Kikuo Ono

Kikuo Ono 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: 20180143711
    Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes a first substrate including a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of touch sensor electrodes; and a second substrate that is disposed opposite the first substrate. The first substrate is disposed on a touch operation side with respect to the second substrate, and a part of the plurality of touch sensor electrodes is disposed in a peripheral region located outside an image display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20180120610
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having one of the substrates including: gate signal lines extending in a row direction; data signal lines extending in a column direction; pixel electrodes and thin-film transistors, which are disposed according to pixels arrayed in the row direction and the column direction; a first insulating film formed between the pixel electrodes and the thin-film transistors; and a common electrode disposed opposite to the pixel electrodes on a liquid crystal layer side. The pixel electrodes are directly formed on a transparent substrate constituting the one of the substrates. In each of the pixels, the pixel electrode is electrically connected to a conduction electrode of the thin-film transistor through a first contact hole formed in the first insulating film, and the conduction electrode and the pixel electrode overlap each other in a plan view in a region where the first contact hole is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20180081229
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first display panel and a second display panel, which are overlapping each other; and a backlight disposed on rear surface sides of the first display panel and the second display panel. The backlight irradiates the first display panel and the second display panel with light beams in a plurality of colors while sequentially switching the light beams. Each of the first display panel and the second display panel includes a plurality of pixels. An area of the pixel included in the first display panel is smaller than an area of the pixel included in the second display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Publication number: 20180081228
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a first display panel displaying a color image, and a second display panel displaying a black-and-white image. The first display panel includes a first pixel corresponding to a first transmission area transmitting light having first color, a second pixel corresponding to a second transmission area transmitting light having second color, and a third pixel corresponding to a third transmission area transmitting light having third color. The second display panel includes a fourth pixel overlapping the first pixel, and a fifth pixel overlapping the second pixel and the third pixel. An area of the fourth pixel is different from an area of the fifth pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 9880438
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel regions. Each of the pixel regions includes a thin-film transistor, a transparent conductive pixel electrode connected to the thin-film transistor, a first common electrode, a first insulating film disposed between the pixel electrode and the first common electrode, a second insulating film, a second common electrode that includes a plurality of slits, and a third insulating film. A space between two closely adjacent boundaries of a pair of pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other in a longitudinal direction of the plurality of gate lines overlaps the first common electrode and the second common electrode in a plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Daisuke Kajita, Ryutaro Oke
  • Patent number: 9857643
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions are defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. Each of the pixel regions includes a first electrode having a plurality of strip-like portions extending in an extension direction of the drain signal lines, the strip-like portions having at least one bent portion so that extension directions of each two parts of the strip-like portions separated by the at least one bent portion are different from each other, and a second electrode formed between the first substrate and the first electrode, and being overlapped with the strip-like portions in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignees: JAPAN DISPLAY INC., PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Publication number: 20170329188
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor and a pixel electrode arranged above the transistor through a first protective film and a second protective film. Among the plurality of pixels, the pixel electrodes of two pixels adjacent in a column direction are connected to corresponding source electrodes of the two pixels through second and third contact holes respectively. The second and third contact holes are formed in the first protective film within a first contact hole that is formed in the second protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 9804449
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a lower electrode and a plurality of upper electrodes opposed to the lower electrode formed in the first substrate. At least one first upper electrode and at least one second upper electrode of the plurality of upper electrodes are formed in each of the plurality of pixels. Each of the first upper electrodes has a plurality of slits that extend in a first direction, each of the second upper electrodes has a plurality of slits that extend in a second direction which is different from the first direction, and the first and second upper electrodes are electrically isolated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20170293192
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to control the color temperature of white exhibited by a liquid crystal display device. White is produced when light waves emitted through pixels associated with three colors of red, green, and blue have maximum intensities. The amounts of light emitted through the respective pixels are controlled by differentiating the shapes of the pixel electrodes disposed at the respective pixels from one another. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. Otherwise, the shapes of interceptive films disposed at the respective pixels are differentiated from one another in order to control light waves emitted through the respective pixels. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. The interceptive film may be shaped like the pixel electrode. Otherwise, the interceptive film may be realized with an interceptive pattern other than that of the pixel electrode or one of openings bored in a black matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Ikuko MORI, Munenori MOTOOKA, Ryutaro OKE, Kazunori OJIMA, Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 9785004
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixel regions divided into a plurality of areas. The plurality of areas include a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas. In each of the pixel regions in each of the first areas, one of (i) the pixel electrode and (ii) the common electrode is formed closer to the liquid crystal layer than the other of (i) the pixel electrode and (ii) the common electrode. In each of the pixel regions in each of the second areas, the other of (i) the pixel electrode and (ii) the common electrode is formed closer to the liquid crystal layer than the one of (i) the pixel electrode and (ii) the common electrode. The common electrode in each of the first areas is formed in a same layer as the pixel electrode in each of the second areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20170285386
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of spacers. A display region of the first substrate includes a thin film transistor, a reflective electrode, a light-shielding layer and a color filter. A display region of the second substrate includes a second alignment layer. The plurality of spacers is integrally formed in the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 9766522
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a transistor and a pixel electrode arranged above the transistor through a first protective film and a second protective film. Among the plurality of pixels, the pixel electrodes of two pixels adjacent in a column direction are connected to corresponding source electrodes of the two pixels through second and third contact holes respectively. The second and third contact holes are formed in the first protective film within a first contact hole that is formed in the second protective film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9760221
    Abstract: An embedded touch screen, including: a first substrate including, on a front surface thereof, a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in a second direction; a second substrate having an image region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix, the second substrate including: a pixel electrode connected to corresponding one of the plurality of video signal lines via a switching element connected to corresponding one of the plurality of scanning signal lines in each of the plurality of pixels; and a common electrode; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; an application circuit for applying an alternating signal to the pixel electrode; a detection circuit for detecting a signal excited on the corresponding one of the plurality of detecting electrodes; and a scanning circuit for scanning the pixel electrode in the second direction during detection by the detection circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Genshiro Kawachi, Kazuo Kita, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9703161
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to control the color temperature of white exhibited by a liquid crystal display device. White is produced when light waves emitted through pixels associated with three colors of red, green, and blue have maximum intensities. The amounts of light emitted through the respective pixels are controlled by differentiating the shapes of the pixel electrodes disposed at the respective pixels from one another. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. Otherwise, the shapes of interceptive films disposed at the respective pixels are differentiated from one another in order to control light waves emitted through the respective pixels. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. The interceptive film may be shaped like the pixel electrode. Otherwise, the interceptive film may be realized with an interceptive pattern other than that of the pixel electrode or one of openings bored in a black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Munenori Motooka, Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9703409
    Abstract: A first insulating film is formed between a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor. The pixel electrode is connected to a conductive electrode of the thin film transistor via a contact hole formed in the first insulating film. The common electrode is formed so as to overlap a data signal line in plan view, and a metal wiring, which is electrically connected to the common electrode, is formed so as to overlap at least a part of the contact hole in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20170160618
    Abstract: A gate line (40) has a two-layered structure comprising a lower gate line (40a) made of material identical to a pixel electrode (70), and positioned in the same layer as the pixel electrode (70), and an upper gate line (40b) layered on the lower gate line (40b), and made of material having a higher electrical conductivity than the transparent conductive material. According to this structure, it is possible to reduce the number of times performing exposure processes in manufacturing an in-plane switching type liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventor: Kikuo ONO
  • Patent number: 9640122
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including a first and second substrates, the second substrate including data signal lines, gate signal lines, pixel electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes that extend in one of a column direction and a row direction, and a plurality of shield electrodes overlapping at least one of the data signal lines or the gate signal lines, the plurality of common electrodes including a first common electrode to which a first voltage is supplied and a second common electrode to which a second voltage is supplied, the first common electrode and the second common electrode being alternately arranged in one of the row direction and the column direction, in which, in plan view, each of the plurality of shield electrodes is formed to overlap at least a gap formed between the first common electrode and the second common electrode that are adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9632370
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions are defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. Each of the pixel regions includes a first electrode having a plurality of strip-like portions extending in an extension direction of the drain signal lines, the strip-like portions having at least one bent portion so that extension directions of each two parts of the strip-like portions separated by the at least one bent portion are different from each other, and a second electrode formed between the first substrate and the first electrode, and being overlapped with the strip-like portions in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Makoto Yoneya, Tsunenori Yamamoto, Junichi Hirakata, Yoshiaki Nakayoshi
  • Patent number: 9612493
    Abstract: A gate line (40) has a two-layered structure comprising a lower gate line (40a) made of material identical to a pixel electrode (70), and positioned in the same layer as the pixel electrode (70), and an upper gate line (40b) layered on the lower gate line (40b), and made of material having a higher electrical conductivity than the transparent conductive material. According to this structure, it is possible to reduce the number of times performing exposure processes in manufacturing an in-plane switching type liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 9563090
    Abstract: A gate line (40) has a two-layered structure comprising a lower gate line (40a) made of material identical to a pixel electrode (70), and positioned in the same layer as the pixel electrode (70), and an upper gate line (40b) layered on the lower gate line (40b), and made of material having a higher electrical conductivity than the transparent conductive material. According to this structure, it is possible to reduce the number of times performing exposure processes in manufacturing an in-plane switching type liquid crystal panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kikuo Ono