Patents by Inventor Liang-Sheng Liao

Liang-Sheng Liao 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: 20100019671
    Abstract: An OLED device including a cathode, a light emitting layer and an anode, in that order, and, having located between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a further layer containing an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of a 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)phenanthroline derivative. Such devices exhibit reduced drive voltage while maintaining good luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Tukaram K. Hatwar, Liang-Sheng Liao, Kevin P. Klubek, Manju Rajeswaran, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Patent number: 7629741
    Abstract: An OLED includes an anode, a light-emitting layer disposed over the anode, and a first electron-injecting layer disposed over the light-emitting layer, wherein the first electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic host material having a reduction potential less than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode and at least one dopant material capable of reducing the organic host material. The OLED also includes a second electron-injecting layer disposed in contact with the first electron-injecting layer, wherein the second electron-injecting layer includes at least one organic material having a reduction potential greater than ?1.0 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and a cathode disposed over the second electron-injecting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Wojciech K. Slusarek, Michele L. Ricks, Ralph H. Young, Dustin L. Comfort
  • Publication number: 20090191427
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device has a first hole-blocking layer in contact with a phosphorescent light-emitting layer and a second hole-blocking layer in contact with the first. The material in the first hole-blocking layer has a triplet energy greater than the host of the phosphorescent layer and the material in the second hole-blocking layer has a triplet energy higher than the dopant in the phosphorescent layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, William J. Begley, Cynthia A. Pellow
  • Patent number: 7560862
    Abstract: A tandem white OLED includes an anode; a cathode; at least one broadband electroluminescent unit disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the broadband electroluminescent unit includes at least one light-emitting layer and produces at least one color component having an intensity less than desired; at least one color-compensating electroluminescent unit disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the color-compensating electroluminescent unit is selected to produce the at least one color component and to increase the color component intensity; and an intermediate connector disposed between each adjacent electroluminescent unit, wherein the intermediate connector has no direct connection to an external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Tukaram K. Hatwar, Kevin P. Klubek, Dustin L. Comfort, Ching W. Tang
  • Patent number: 7532181
    Abstract: A display for producing either visible or invisible images to the human eyes comprising a plurality of pixels wherein each of the pixels includes one or more visible radiation subpixels capable of producing visible radiations to the human eyes and at least one invisible radiation subpixel capable of producing invisible radiations to the human eyes; and means for selectively operating the display to activate either visible or invisible radiation subpixels to respectively producing visible or invisible images to the human eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Ching W. Tang, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Publication number: 20090115316
    Abstract: Azatriphenylene derivatives and their use in the electron-transporting layer of an electroluminescent device that comprises an anode, a spaced-apart cathode, and at least one electron-transporting layer disposed between the spaced-apart anode and cathode. Such EL devices provide lower drive voltage, improved power efficiency, and longer operational lifetime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventors: Shiying Zheng, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 7528545
    Abstract: An OLED device comprising an anode and a cathode spaced from the anode, two EL units disposed between the anode and cathode, such EL units being in contact with each other and each having at least one light emitting layer; and each EL unit further includes a p-type doped organic hole transporting layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the anode, and an n-type doped organic electron transporting layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Kevin P. Klubek, Ching W. Tang
  • Publication number: 20090108736
    Abstract: An OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having there between a red light emitting layer containing a non-light-emitting fluoranthene compound with a 7,10-diaryl substituted fluoranthene nucleus having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus, and a red light-emitting phosphorescent dopant. OLED devices of the invention provide reduced drive voltage and improved color, and provide embodiments with other improved features such as operational stability and high luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Publication number: 20090108735
    Abstract: The invention provides an OLED device comprising a cathode, an anode, and having there between a light-emitting layer, further comprising, between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a non-luminescent electron transporting layer containing a compound with a 7,10-diaryl substituted fluoranthene nucleus having no aromatic rings annulated to the fluoranthene nucleus and desirably comprises still further an additional layer containing an organic alkali metal compound, located between the cathode and the electron transporting layer. Devices of the invention provide improvement in features such as efficiency, drive voltage, and operational stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Liang-Sheng Liao, Natasha Andrievsky
  • Publication number: 20090091242
    Abstract: An OLED including an anode; a cathode; a hole-injecting layer disposed over the anode, wherein the hole-injecting layer includes a first organic material with a reduction potential greater than ?0.1 V and a lesser amount by volume of a second material with an oxidation potential less than 0.7 V, and wherein the second material does not include metal complexes; a hole-transporting layer disposed over the hole-injecting layer; a light-emitting layer disposed between the hole-transporting layer and the cathode; and an electron-transporting layer disposed between the light-emitting layer and the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Kevin P. Klubek
  • Patent number: 7494722
    Abstract: A tandem OLED includes an anode and a cathode. The OLED also includes at least two electroluminescent units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each of the electroluminescent units includes at least one hole-transporting layer and one organic light-emitting layer. An intermediate connector is disposed between adjacent electroluminescent units, wherein the intermediate connector includes an n-doped organic layer and an electron-accepting layer, the electron-accepting layer being disposed closer to the cathode than the n-doped organic layer, and wherein the electron-accepting layer includes one or more organic materials, each having a reduction potential greater than ?0.5 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and wherein the one or more organic materials constitute more than 50% by volume of the electron-accepting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Wojciech K. Slusarek, Tukaram K. Hatwar, Michele L. Ricks, Dustin L. Comfort
  • Publication number: 20090004365
    Abstract: An OLED includes an anode formed over a substrate and a contaminant-scavenging layer formed over the anode, wherein the contaminant-scavenging layer includes one or more organic materials but not a hexaazatriphenylene derivative, each having an electron-accepting property and a reduction potential greater than ?0.1 V vs. a Saturated Calomel Electrode, and wherein the one or more organic materials provide more than 50% by mole ratio of the contaminant-scavenging layer. The OLED also includes an organic electroluminescent unit formed over the contaminant-scavenging layer, wherein the organic electroluminescent unit includes a hole-transporting layer, a light-emitting layer, and an electron-transporting layer, and a cathode formed over the organic electroluminescent unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Kevin P. Klubek, Wojciech K. Slusarek, Tukaram K. Hatwar
  • Publication number: 20090004485
    Abstract: An organic material having a 6-member ring structure represented by the following formulae (I), wherein: ring A, ring B, and ring C each include substituted or un-substituted aromatic rings comprising 6 to 60 carbon atoms, or substituted or un-substituted heteroaromatic rings comprising 4 to 60 carbon atoms, and ring A and ring C form a fused aromatic or heteroaromatic structure; X is a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, a silicon atom, an oxygen atom, a phosphorus atom, a selenium atom, or a germanium atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Shiying Zheng, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Publication number: 20080315753
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device comprising an anode; a cathode; a hole-transporting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode; a phosphorescent light-emitting layer disposed between the hole-transporting layer and the cathode, wherein the phosphorescent light-emitting layer includes at least one host and at least one phosphorescent dopant; a first exciton-blocking layer disposed between the hole-transporting layer and the phosphorescent light-emitting layer; wherein the first exciton-blocking layer has a triplet energy greater than the triplet energy of the host in the phosphorescent light-emitting layer; and a second exciton-blocking layer disposed between the first exciton-blocking layer and the phosphorescent light-emitting layer, wherein the second exciton-blocking layer is in contact with the phosphorescent light-emitting layer, and wherein the second exciton-blocking layer has a triplet energy less than the triplet energy of the first exciton-blocking layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Xiaofan Ren, Cynthia A. Pellow, Yuan-Sheng Tyan
  • Publication number: 20080310186
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a micro-lens array and light-emitting device, comprising forming a first structured polymer film with close packed surface cavities having a mean diameter of less than 20 micrometers and a relatively lower surface energy surface, forming a transparent second structured film with an array of microlenses formed thereon corresponding to the cavities of the first structured film, wherein the second structured film comprises a relatively high surface energy material and has a refractive index greater than 1.45, and wherein the microlenses are randomly distributed, separating the second structured film with the micro-lens array from the first structured polymer film, and attaching the second structured film to a transparent substrate or cover of a light-emitting device through which light is emitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2007
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: Krishnan Chari, Charles W. Lander, Liang-Sheng Liao, Paul D. Yacobucci
  • Publication number: 20080284317
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting device (OLED) including an anode; a cathode; a blue light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and includes at least one blue host and at least one fluorescent blue dopant; a first light-emitting layer disposed between the anode and the blue light-emitting layer, including a first phosphorescent dopant and a host; and a second light-emitting layer disposed between the blue light-emitting layer and the cathode, including a second phosphorescent dopant and a host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Kevin P. Klubek, Joseph C. Deaton, Cynthia A. Pellow
  • Publication number: 20080182129
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and has therebetween a light-emitting layer wherein the light-emitting layer comprises (a) a 2-arylanthracene compound and (b) a light-emitting second anthracene compound having amino substitution at a minimum of two positions, wherein at least one amine is substituted at the 2 position of the second anthracene compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: July 31, 2008
    Inventors: Kevin P. Klubek, Liang-Sheng Liao, Viktor V. Jarikov, Denis Y. Kondakov, William J. Begley, Michele L. Ricks
  • Publication number: 20080030131
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, comprising: a multi-layer stack of materials supported on an optically transparent support member, a first spatial filter, and a second spatial filter spaced from the first spatial filter. The multi-layer stack including at least one organic light-emitting layers, an anode layer, and a cathode layer. The first spatial filter is disposed intermediate the multi-layer stack of materials and the second spatial filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Inventors: Francisco J. Duarte, Kathleen M. Vaeth, Liang-Sheng Liao
  • Patent number: 7273663
    Abstract: A tandem white OLED device includes an anode, a cathode, and a plurality of organic electroluminescence units disposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein each organic electroluminescence unit includes at least one light-emitting layer, and wherein each organic electroluminescence unit emits white light. The device also includes an intermediate connector disposed between each adjacent organic electroluminescence unit, wherein the intermediate connector includes at least two different layers, and wherein the intermediate connector has no direct connection to an external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Liang-Sheng Liao, Tukaram K. Hatwar, Kevin P. Klubek, Ching W. Tang
  • Publication number: 20070207347
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, a light emitting layer and an anode, in that order, and, has located between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a further layer containing a cyclometallated complex represented by Formula (4?) wherein: Z and the dashed arc represent two or three atoms and the bonds necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered ring with M; each A represents H or a substituent and each B represents an independently selected substituent on the Z atoms, provided that two or more substituents may combine to form a fused ring or a fused ring system; j is 0-3 and k is 1 or 2; M represents a Group IA, IIA, IIIA and IIB element of the Periodic Table; m and n are independently selected integers selected to provide a neutral charge on the complex; and provided that the complex does not contain the 8-hydroxyquinolate ligand. Such devices exhibit reduce drive voltage while maintaining good luminance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: William Begley, Tukaram Hatwar, Liang-Sheng Liao, Jeffrey Spindler, Kevin Klubek, Manju Rajeswaran, Natasha Andrievsky