Patents by Inventor Masahiko Akiyama

Masahiko Akiyama 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: 7242445
    Abstract: A display device disclosed herein comprises: a display part including a first thin plate having flexibility and a second thin plate having flexibility, the second thin plate being provided on the first thin plate; a fixing portion which fixes the first thin plate and the second thin plate together on a first direction within each main surface of the first and second thin plates; and a close contact member which is provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction within the main surface, and which brings the first thin plate and the second thin plate into close contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Masao Tanaka, Yujiro Hara, Rieko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 7223632
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a substrate, a thick-film adhesive pad made of organic resin, provided on the substrate and including, at least at a part of a side face thereof, an inclined region having a first contact angle smaller than 90 degrees to the main face of the substrate, a thin-film active element provided on the thick-film adhesive pad, and a thin-film interconnection line connected to the thin-film active element and extending onto the substrate via the inclined region, a film thickness of the thick-film adhesive pad being four or more times that of the thin-film interconnection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yutaka Onozuka, Mitsuo Nakajima, Yujiro Hara, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20070057256
    Abstract: An element forming substrate includes a substrate and a plurality of elements which are arranged in a matrix form on the substrate. Each of the elements includes a thin film transistor and contact pads connected to the transistor, and has peripheral sides separated from adjacent elements in a plane of the substrate. A channel direction of the transistor is inclined relative to the peripheral sides of the elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka, Keiji Sugi, Masahiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 7180237
    Abstract: In an active matrix substrate, the substrate includes a pixel region and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region. A plurality of adhesive layers arranged to form a matrix having rows and columns are arranged in the pixel region, and pluralities of active elements are formed, respectively, on the plural adhesive layers. A spacer layer is formed in the peripheral region, and a uniform pressure is applied between the active element and the adhesive layer in performing the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yutaka Onozuka, Masahiko Akiyama, Yujiro Hara, Kentaro Miura
  • Publication number: 20060274036
    Abstract: A display input device comprises a display unit having a flexibility; and a first form change detection unit having a flexibility. The first form change detection unit is able to detect a deformation ascribed to the flexibility as a change in a electrical property. A display input system further comprises a display driving unit that supplies a display signal to the display unit and signal judging unit that judges a input data based on the change in a electrical property in the first form change detection unit. The input of a first data can be performed by adding the deformation to the display input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama, Kenichi Kameyama, Kazuki Taira, Isao Mihara
  • Patent number: 7109967
    Abstract: A display input device comprises a display unit having a flexibility; and a first form change detection unit having a flexibility. The first form change detection unit is able to detect a deformation ascribed to the flexibility as a change in a electrical property. A display input system further comprises a display driving unit that supplies a display signal to the display unit and a signal judging unit that judges a input data based on the change in a electrical property in the first form change detection unit. The input of a first data can be performed by adding the deformation to the display input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama, Kenichi Kameyama, Kazuki Taira, Isao Mihara
  • Publication number: 20060172470
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a thin film element is proposed, which can prevent the decrease in TFT manufacturing yield caused by the cracks occurring in an isolation layer at the time of the removing of an element formation substrate. A protection layer is formed between a plurality of TFTs, and an isolation layer is formed below the TFTs and the protection layer. This structure can prevent the TFTs from suffering adverse effects when the TFTs are temporarily bonded to an intermediate transfer substrate, and the element formation substrate and the isolation layer are removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka, Kentaro Miura, Masahiko Akiyama
  • Patent number: 7081642
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a substrate, a thick-film adhesive pad made of organic resin, provided on the substrate and including, at least at a part of a side face thereof, an inclined region having a first contact angle smaller than 90 degrees to the main face of the substrate, a thin-film active element provided on the thick-film adhesive pad, and a thin-film interconnection line connected to the thin-film active element and extending onto the substrate via the inclined region, a film thickness of the thick-film adhesive pad being four or more times that of the thin-film interconnection line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yutaka Onozuka, Mitsuo Nakajima, Yujiro Hara, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20060125973
    Abstract: A display device disclosed herein comprises: a display part including a first thin plate having flexibility and a second thin plate having flexibility, the second thin plate being provided on the first thin plate; a fixing portion which fixes the first thin plate and the second thin plate together on a first direction within each main surface of the first and second thin plates; and a close contact member which is provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction within the main surface, and which brings the first thin plate and the second thin plate into close contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Masao Tanaka, Yujiro Hara, Rieko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 7050125
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix substrate comprises forming a plurality of elements on an element formation substrate, forming wirings on a final substrate, transferring some elements selected from the elements, and selectively connecting some elements to the wirings on the final substrate. According to this method, it is possible to manufacture an active matrix substrate providing a high definition image on a large substrate or a non-glass substrate, at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Masahiko Akiyama
  • Publication number: 20060076561
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix type display device, which is reliable and flexible, is provided. An active matrix type display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first substrate, which is flexible; a thin glass layer provided on the first substrate via an adhesion layer, and having projections and depressions on a surface thereof opposing to the first substrate, the projections and depressions having rounded tips and bottoms; active elements provided on the thin glass layer, each active element corresponding to a pixel; a display provided above the thin glass layer, and driven by the active elements to display an image pixel by pixel; and a second substrate provided on the display, and having an opposing electrode formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Publication date: April 13, 2006
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Nakajima, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka
  • Patent number: 7027110
    Abstract: A display device disclosed herein comprises: a display part including a first thin plate having flexibility and a second thin plate having flexibility, the second thin plate being provided on the first thin plate; a fixing portion which fixes the first thin plate and the second thin plate together on a first direction within each main surface of the first and second thin plates; and a close contact member which is provided in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction within the main surface, and which brings the first thin plate and the second thin plate into close contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Masao Tanaka, Yujiro Hara, Rieko Fukushima
  • Patent number: 6987284
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix type display device, which is reliable and flexible, is provided. An active matrix type display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first substrate, which is flexible; a thin glass layer provided on the first substrate via an adhesion layer, and having projections and depressions on a surface thereof opposing to the first substrate, the projections and depressions having rounded tips and bottoms; active elements provided on the thin glass layer, each active element corresponding to a pixel; a display provided above the thin glass layer, and driven by the active elements to display an image pixel by pixel; and a second substrate provided on the display, and having an opposing electrode formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Nakajima, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20060001023
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of adhesion parts provided on the substrate so as to have substantially the same height, and a plurality of active elements provided on the plurality of adhesion parts, respectively, each of the plurality of adhesion parts including a height control member and an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Mitsuo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 6977710
    Abstract: A display device comprises a first plastic substrate, a first adhesion layer formed in a first region of the first plastic substrate, the first region being a region where a pixel region is to be formed thereon, a second adhesion layer formed in a peripheral region outside of the first region of the first plastic substrate, a first thin glass layer formed on the first and second adhesion layers, a plurality of active elements formed on the first thin glass layer in one-to-one relation with a plurality of pixels, a display part formed on the first thin glass layer, the display part corresponding to the pixel region and being driven by the plurality of active elements, and an opposing substrate formed over the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20050274950
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an active matrix type display device, which is reliable and flexible, is provided. An active matrix type display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a first substrate, which is flexible; a thin glass layer provided on the first substrate via an adhesion layer, and having projections and depressions on a surface thereof opposing to the first substrate, the projections and depressions having rounded tips and bottoms; active elements provided on the thin glass layer, each active element corresponding to a pixel; a display provided above the thin glass layer, and driven by the active elements to display an image pixel by pixel; and a second substrate provided on the display, and having an opposing electrode formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hioki, Masahiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Nakajima, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka
  • Publication number: 20050264176
    Abstract: In an active matrix substrate, the substrate includes a pixel region and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region. A plurality of adhesive layers arranged to form a matrix having rows and columns are arranged in the pixel region, and pluralities of active elements are formed, respectively, on the plural adhesive layers. A spacer layer is formed in the peripheral region, and a uniform pressure is applied between the active element and the adhesive layer in performing the transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: December 1, 2005
    Inventors: Yutaka Onozuka, Masahiko Akiyama, Yujiro Hara, Kentaro Miura
  • Publication number: 20050243229
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of adhesion parts provided on the substrate so as to have substantially the same height, and a plurality of active elements provided on the plurality of adhesion parts, respectively, each of the plurality of adhesion parts including a height control member and an adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Publication date: November 3, 2005
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Mitsuo Nakajima
  • Patent number: 6956638
    Abstract: A display device comprises a first plastic substrate, a first adhesion layer formed in a first region of the first plastic substrate, the first region being a region where a pixel region is to be formed thereon, a second adhesion layer formed in a peripheral region outside of the first region of the first plastic substrate, a first thin glass layer formed on the first and second adhesion layers, a plurality of active elements formed on the first thin glass layer in one-to-one relation with a plurality of pixels, a display part formed on the first thin glass layer, the display part corresponding to the pixel region and being driven by the plurality of active elements, and an opposing substrate formed over the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Mitsuo Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka
  • Patent number: 6936912
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a substrate, a plurality of adhesion parts provided on the substrate so as to have substantially the same height, and a plurality of active elements provided on the plurality of adhesion parts, respectively, each of the plurality of adhesion parts including a height control member and an adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masahiko Akiyama, Yujiro Hara, Yutaka Onozuka, Tsuyoshi Hioki, Mitsuo Nakajima