Patents by Inventor Masakazu Murakami

Masakazu Murakami 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: 20150008458
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device high in reliability with a pixel portion having high definition with a large screen. According to a light emitting device of the present invention, on an insulator (24) provided between pixel electrodes, an auxiliary electrode (21) made of a metal film is formed, whereby a conductive layer (20) made of a transparent conductive film in contact with the auxiliary electrode can be made low in resistance and thin. Also, the auxiliary electrode (21) is used to achieve connection with an electrode on a lower layer, whereby the electrode can be led out with the transparent conductive film formed on an EL layer. Further, a protective film (32) made of a film containing hydrogen and a silicon nitride film which are laminated is formed, whereby high reliability can be achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masaaki Hiroki, Masakazu Murakami, Hideaki Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8912712
    Abstract: To provide an aspect of a novel display device using a light emitting element which is composed of a cathode, an EL layer and an anode, and a manufacturing device of the display device. According to the present invention, dual-sided emission display can be performed in one sheet white color light emitting panel 1001 in which, for example, different images can be displayed on a topside screen and backside screen (full color display, monochrome display or area color display). Two polarizing plates 1002, 1003 are formed by shifting the position thereof with an angular deviation of 90 degrees each other so as to prevent outside light from passing through the pane, thereby realizing a black display when not displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hiroko Abe, Masakazu Murakami, Ryoji Nomura
  • Patent number: 8779467
    Abstract: To provide a light emitting device high in reliability with a pixel portion having high definition with a large screen. According to a light emitting device of the present invention, on an insulator (24) provided between pixel electrodes. an auxiliary electrode (21) made of a metal film is formed, whereby a conductive layer (20) made of a transparent conductive film in contact with the auxiliary electrode can be made low in resistance and thin. Also, the auxiliary electrode (21) is used to achieve connection with an electrode on a lower layer, whereby the electrode can be led out with the transparent conductive film formed on an EL layer. Further, a protective film (32) made of a film containing hydrogen and a silicon nitride film which are laminated is formed, whereby high reliability can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masaaki Hiroki, Masakazu Murakami, Hideaki Kuwabara
  • Publication number: 20140147588
    Abstract: The invention provides an evaporation apparatus, which is able to improve an efficiency of evaporation materials, uniformity of deposited films, and throughput of the evaporation process. Disclosed is an evaporation source holder, which is installed in an evaporation chamber and configured to hold an evaporation material, and a moving mechanism, which is configured to move the evaporation source holder during evaporation of the evaporation material. The evaporation apparatus is further characterized by a shutter over the evaporation source holder, a filter over the shutter, and a heater surrounding the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masakazu Murakami
  • Publication number: 20140102366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vapor deposition method and a vapor deposition system of film formation systems by which EL materials can be used more efficiently and EL materials having superior uniformity with high throughput rate are formed. According to the present invention, inside a film formation chamber, an evaporation source holder in a rectangular shape in which a plurality of containers sealing evaporation material is moved at a certain pitch to a substrate and the evaporation material is vapor deposited on the substrate. Further, a longitudinal direction of an evaporation source holder in a rectangular shape may be oblique to one side of a substrate, while the evaporation source holder is being moved. Furthermore, it is preferable that a movement direction of an evaporation source holder during vapor deposition be different from a scanning direction of a laser beam while a TPT is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hideaki Kuwabara, Masakazu Murakami
  • Patent number: 8697889
    Abstract: Disclosed is a metal compound represented by the following formula (0): in the formula (0), A represents a thietane ring, or a monovalent group containing a thiol group; B represents a divalent group containing a heteroatom; R2 represents a divalent organic group; n represents the valence of M; p represents an integer of 1 ton; M represents a lanthanoid atom or a barium (Ba) atom when A is a thietane ring, and represents a lanthanoid atom when A is a monovalent group containing a thiol group; or more than Y represents a monovalent inorganic or organic group; when n?p is not less than 2, a plurality of Y's each independently represent a monovalent inorganic or organic group; and when n?p is not less than 2, the plurality of Y's may be bonded with each other to form a ring containing M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Murakami, Mamoru Takashina, Tomoyuki Ando, Seiichi Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20140099742
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a peeled layer bonded to a base material with curvature. Particularly, the object is to provide a method for fabricating a display with curvature, more specifically, a light emitting device having an OLED bonded to a base material with curvature. An external force is applied to a support originally having curvature and elasticity, and the support is bonded to a peeled layer formed over a substrate. Then, when the substrate is peeled, the support returns into the original shape by the restoring force, and the peeled layer as well is curved along the shape of the support. Finally, a transfer object originally having curvature is bonded to the peeled layer, and then a device with a desired curvature is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masakazu Murakami, Toru Takayama, Junya Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8694143
    Abstract: In a management apparatus for managing a flow of linked jobs to be executed by a plurality of devices connected to a network, a storage device stores one or more flows. When a change of function in the devices is detected, one of the one or more flows stored in the storage device and affected by the change of function detected by the detector is corrected. Then the corrected flow is stored in the storage device. Alternatively, the corrected flow is presented to a user who owns the one of the one or more flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazumi Sawayanagi, Hironobu Nakata, Masakazu Murakami, Minako Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8680295
    Abstract: A process for producing bis(thietanylthio)dithiastannolane of the following formula: involving the reaction of tetrakis(thietanylthio)tin having the following formula: with 1,2-ethandiethiol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Murakami, Tomoyuki Ando, Seiichi Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8670148
    Abstract: Upon reception of a job, a control unit of an image processing apparatus executes processing for judging whether any cancellation factor exists. If there is no cancellation factor, the control unit outputs pages relating to the job, stores page information thereof, and updates execution history information after outputting all the pages. If there is any cancellation factor, the control unit performs only preparation for output of the pages, stores page information obtained through the preparation, and updates cancellation history information after storing the page information of all the pages. A message as a result of evaluation of the cancellation history information is displayed on an operation panel. The message prompts an administrator to change management condition as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakazu Murakami, Atsushi Ohshima, Tomonari Yoshimura, Masami Yamada, Takahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8645961
    Abstract: An image formation apparatus that has a webpage viewing function includes a job receiver that receives a job execution instruction from a user terminal, a job analyzer that analyzes the received job execution instruction, a job executor that executes a job based on a result of the analysis, and a job registration part that, if the received job execution instruction includes URL information specifying a webpage, registers user identification information pertaining to a user who issued the job execution instruction and the URL information included therein in correspondence with each other such that the webpage can be viewed with use of the URL information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Atsushi Ohshima, Masami Yamada, Masakazu Murakami, Takahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8629439
    Abstract: A light emitting device having a high definition, a high aperture ratio and a high reliability is provided. The present invention realizes a high definition and a high aperture ratio for a flat panel display of full colors using luminescent colors of red, green and blue without being dependent upon the film formation method and deposition precision of an organic compound layer by forming the laminated sections 21, 22 by means of intentionally and partially overlapping different organic compound layers of adjacent light emitting elements. Moreover, the protective film 32a containing hydrogen is formed and the drawback in the organic compound layer is terminated with hydrogen, thereby realizing the enhancement of the brightness and the reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masaaki Hiroki, Masakazu Murakami, Hideaki Kuwabara
  • Patent number: 8625124
    Abstract: An MFP (A) on a document transmission side transmits a document to an MFP (B) on a document reception side. The MFP (A) stores the transmitted document. The MFP (A) acquires a status of the transmitted document from the MFP (B). If the MFP (B) deletes the document in an unread state, the MFP (A) retransmits the stored document to the MFP (B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Murakami, Mitsuzo Iwaki, Tomonari Yoshimura, Okihisa Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8610118
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a peeled layer bonded to a base material with curvature. Particularly, the object is to provide a method for fabricating a display with curvature, more specifically, a light emitting device having an OLED bonded to a base material with curvature. An external force is applied to a support originally having curvature and elasticity, and the support is bonded to a peeled layer formed over a substrate. Then, when the substrate is peeled, the support returns into the original shape by the restoring force, and the peeled layer as well is curved along the shape of the support. Finally, a transfer object originally having curvature is bonded to the peeled layer, and then a device with a desired curvature is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masakazu Murakami, Toru Takayama, Junya Maruyama
  • Patent number: 8609476
    Abstract: The present invention provides a vapor deposition method and a vapor deposition system of film formation systems by which EL materials can be used more efficiently and EL materials having superior uniformity with high throughput rate are formed. According to the present invention, inside a film formation chamber, an evaporation source holder in a rectangular shape in which a plurality of containers sealing evaporation material is moved at a certain pitch to a substrate and the evaporation material is vapor deposited on the substrate. Further, a longitudinal direction of an evaporation source holder in a rectangular shape may be oblique to one side of a substrate, while the evaporation source holder is being moved. Furthermore, it is preferable that a movement direction of an evaporation source holder during vapor deposition be different from a scanning direction of a laser beam while a TFT is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hideaki Kuwabara, Masakazu Murakami
  • Patent number: 8599404
    Abstract: A network image processing system that includes a plurality of apparatuses connected to a network and performs jobs in a linkage process in which an upstream apparatus passes a workflow specifying a job to be completed, together with image data to be processed, to a downstream apparatus according to a procedure specified in the workflow. The downstream apparatus has a completion notification transmitting unit that when a predetermined job assigned to the downstream apparatus has been processed completely, transmits to the upstream apparatus a completion notification indicating that the predetermined job has been processed normally. The upstream apparatus has a linkage unit that if the completion notification is not received from the downstream apparatus, updates the workflow to specify, as a new downstream apparatus, another apparatus that can process the predetermined job, and continues to process the predetermined job in the linkage process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Hironobu Nakata, Masakazu Murakami, Kazumi Sawayanagi
  • Patent number: 8587799
    Abstract: An image processing device, which performs an image-related process about an image in cooperation with another image forming device via a network, is provided with a device configuration detection portion for detecting a function that is added to the image processing device itself, and a new function information notifying portion for notifying another image processing device that a function is added to the image forming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Minako Kobayashi, Kazumi Sawayanagi, Hironobu Nakata, Masakazu Murakami
  • Patent number: 8582137
    Abstract: A multifunction peripheral that can set appropriate criteria of security levels for another device, and improves usability while lowering a risk of data alteration, information leakage and the like by including a holding part 11 holding therein security criteria set for the image processing functions in one-to-one correspondence; a receiver 12 that receives, from an external terminal, a request for an access that is necessary for executing at least one of the image processing functions; an acquisition part 13 that acquires, from the external terminal, security information that is a security indicator regarding the access from the external terminal; a judgment part 15 that judges whether or not one of the security criteria set for the at least one of the image processing functions is met, based on the acquired security information; an access controller 16 that permits the access if the judgment part 15 judges affirmatively, and prohibits the access or permit the access with a limitation if the judgment part 15
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tomonari Yoshimura, Atsushi Ohshima, Masami Yamada, Masakazu Murakami
  • Patent number: 8570539
    Abstract: Referring to contents of a user information storage, an MFP information storage, an API information storage and the like, whether or not an API is available is determined, an unexecutable function of an application due to unavailability of the API is determined, and a display way for displaying a list of applications on a display is switched
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Masakazu Murakami, Mitsuzo Iwaki, Tomonari Yoshimura, Okihisa Yoshida, Takahiro Ikeda
  • Patent number: 8536784
    Abstract: The inventors have anticipated that there is no problem in employing electron gun deposition as a method of forming a metallic layer on an EL layer of an active matrix light-emitting device because the TFT of the active matrix light-emitting device is disposed below the EL layer. However, since the TFT is extremely sensitive to ionized evaporated particles, the secondary electron, the reflecting electron, and so on generated by the electron gun, while little damage is observed on the EL layer, significant damage is found on the TFT when electron gun deposition is employed. The invention provides an active matrix light-emitting device having superior TFT characteristics (ON current, OFF to current, Vth, S-value, and so on), in which an organic compound layer and a metallic layer (cathode or anode) are formed by means of resistive heating having least influence to the TFT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Masakazu Murakami, Naomi Kawakami, Hisashi Ohtani