Patents by Inventor Kojiro Tsubota

Kojiro Tsubota 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: 5734452
    Abstract: A two-terminal non-linear resistive device including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a zinc sulfide layer interposed therebetween. The zinc sulfide layer contains at least one transition metal element as an impurity. The zinc sulfide layer is formed by sputtering using a sintered ZnS target including the transition metal element or a sintered ZnS target including the transition metal sulfide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Yamaue, Kiyoshi Okano, Takao Nomura, Kojiro Tsubota
  • Patent number: 5638199
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a method for repairing a defective pixel of a liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first transparent substrate on an internal surface of which switching elements are formed; a second transparent substrate which is provided being spaced apart from the first transparent substrate and on an internal surface of which a black mask pattern is formed; liquid crystal interposed between the first and the second transparent substrates having a twisted-nematic orientation; and two polarizing plates provided on external surfaces of the first and the second transparent substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kojiro Tsubota, Yoji Yoshimura, Yutaka Takafuji
  • Patent number: 5596023
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel in which a liquid crystal composition is held between a pair of transparent substrates and the peripheral edges of both the substrates are sealed with a sealing material comprising (a) a partially esterified epoxy (meth)acrylate resin where 10-90% of an equivalent of the epoxy group of a bisphenol A type epoxy resin is (meth)acrylated, (b) a photopolymerization initiator, and (c) a thermosetting agent; and a sealing material for the liquid crystal display panel comprising the above-mentioned components (a), (b) and (c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 21, 1997
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kojiro Tsubota, Kazuyoshi Fujioka, Yutaka Takafuji, Tsuyoshi Kurokawa, Fumio Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5296954
    Abstract: First display electrodes are formed on a first electrode substrate. Second display electrodes are formed on a second electrode substrate in such a direction as to intersect at right angles with the first display electrodes. In order to obtain a liquid crystal display device provided with a screen having a large contrast ratio, masking films for intermittently masking regions between the display electrodes, formed on at least one of the first electrode substrate, and the second electrode substrate are formed on the display electrodes on the other electrode substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukiko Ichimura, Kojiro Tsubota
  • Patent number: 4870486
    Abstract: A virtual stereographic display system which includes a display image surface, a polarizer disposed before the display image surface, a liquid crystal cell in which ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal is aligned, and disposed before the polarizer, a driving circuit connected to the liquid crystal cell so as to apply AC voltage synchronized with the frame signal of the image on the display image surface to the liquid crystal cell and to switch over the polarization axes of the display light proceeding from the display image surface through the polarizer and liquid crystal cell by time division, and polarizing glasses having different polarization axes for the left eye and right eye for viewing the display light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakagawa, Kojiro Tsubota, Kunihiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 4772943
    Abstract: A virtual stereographic display system which includes a display image surface, a polarizer disposed before the display image surface, a liquid crystal cell in which ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal is aligned, and disposed before the polarizer, a driving circuit connected to the liquid crystal cell so as to apply AC voltage synchronized with the frame signal of the image on the display image surface to the liquid crystal cell and to switch over the, polarization axes of the display light proceeding from the display image surface through the polarizer and liquid crystal cell by time division, and polarizing glasses having different polarization axes for the left eye and right eye for viewing the display light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenichi Nakagawa, Kojiro Tsubota, Kunihiko Yamamoto