Patents by Inventor Mariko Ban

Mariko Ban 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: 6600534
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device is provided in which, on one of a pair of substrates opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween, data signal lines and scanning signal lines are provided so as to cross each other, thin film transistors are provided so as to be electrically connected to the data signal lines and the scanning signal lines, reflective pixel electrodes are provided on an interlayer insulator formed so as to cover at least a part of the data signal lines, the scanning signal lines, or the thin film transistors, and the reflective pixel electrodes are electrically connected to drain electrodes of the thin film transistors, wherein an underlying film is disposed in contact with the interlayer insulator, the underlying film uniforming heat conduction and/or light transmittance between the interlayer insulator and the one of the substrates and/or contact properties of the interlayer insulator with respect to the one of the substrates in a region where at least
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kyoushi Tanaka, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Toshiaki Fujihara, Mariko Ban
  • Patent number: 6600535
    Abstract: A reflector includes a substrate, a plurality of convex/concave portions formed on the substrate, and a thin reflective film formed over the convex/concave portions. When light is incident upon the reflector from a certain direction, an intensity of reflected light in a viewing angle range of about −45° to +45° with respect to a regular reflection direction of the incident light 10 is about 60% or more of an intensity of light which is incident upon a standard white plate from a direction inclined by about 30° from a direction normal to the plate and is reflected to the direction normal to the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tsuda, Masako Nakamura, Akiyoshi Fujii, Mariko Ban, Yasuhisa Itoh, Kozo Nakamura, Naofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 6313895
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a reflecting plate having excellent reflecting characteristics and a reflection type liquid crystal display apparatus having an improved display quality. A mask has a plurality of basic uneven spot patterns for individual pixels, and two or more uneven regions for at least one basic uneven spot pattern are formed. Any two of the two or more uneven regions appear at least in a relation of parallel displacement in which the uneven spot patterns are displaced in parallel with each other, among relations of parallel displacement, rotational displacement and reversal of uneven spot pattern, and the uneven regions are irregularly arranged. A reflecting plate and a reflection type liquid crystal display apparatus both having convexes are manufactured by an exposure of a photosensitive resin film using the mask. Even in the case where an exposure step is repeated in different positions, no seam is observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tsuda, Mariko Ban, Naofumi Kimura, Seiichi Mitsui
  • Patent number: 6262783
    Abstract: A reflective liquid crystal display device includes a pair of transparent plates, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the pair of plates, and a light-shielding layer provided on one of the plates. The light-shielding layer has a light-transmitting portion and a light-shielding portion. The reflective liquid crystal display device further includes a storage capacitor electrode and an insulating layer covering the light-shielding layer and the storage capacitor electrode. The insulating layer has concave and convex surfaces. The reflective liquid crystal display device further includes a reflective pixel electrode provided on the concave and convex surfaces of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tsuda, Mariko Ban, Tomoko Tanaka
  • Patent number: 5936688
    Abstract: A reflector includes a substrate, a plurality of convex/concave portions formed on the substrate, and a thin reflective film formed over the convex/concave portions. When light is incident upon the reflector from a certain direction, an intensity of reflected light in a viewing angle range of about -45.degree. to +45.degree. with respect to a regular reflection direction of the incident light is about 60% or more of an intensity of light which is incident upon a standard white plate from a direction inclined by about 30.degree. from a direction normal to the plate and is reflected to the direction normal to the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuhiko Tsuda, Masako Nakamura, Akiyoshi Fujii, Mariko Ban, Yasuhisa Itoh, Kozo Nakamura, Naofumi Kimura
  • Patent number: 5671031
    Abstract: A reflection type liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes: a first substrate having a reflective electrode formed thereon; a second substrate having a transparent counter substrate and a color filter formed thereon; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, wherein the color filter includes a red color filter portion and a cyan color filter portion. The cyan color filter portion transmits light having a complementary color of a color of light transmitted through the red color filter portion. The light transmitted through the red color filter portion has a chromaticity (x, y) on the XYZ color system chromaticity diagram satisfying the following formulae at a 2.degree. viewing angle using a standard light source D.sub.65 :(0.038).sup.2 .ltoreq.(x-0.313).sup.2 +(25/4).multidot.(y-0.329).sup.2 .ltoreq.(0.178).sup.2 ;y.ltoreq.0.145x+0.236; andy.gtoreq.-0.233x+0.376.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignees: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kozo Nakamura, Mariko Ban, Naofumi Kimura, Akio Haneda
  • Patent number: 5148297
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of laminated liquid crystal layers and a transparent substrate interposed between the liquid crystal layers, the transparent substrate being formed of an aggregate of optical fibers arranged so that a ray may be introduced between main and back surfaces of the substrate, whereby aberration of a display image of adjacent liquid crystal layers caused by a difference of a viewing angle can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1992
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yutaka Ishii, Naofumi Kimura, Seiichi Mitsui, Mariko Ban