Patents by Inventor Masumi Manabe

Masumi Manabe 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: 8154703
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate including a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, and a pixel electrode formed on the scanning line, the signal line, and the switching element and electrically connected to the switching element, an opposite substrate including a common electrode with a through-hole and arranged opposite to the array substrate with a gap, a columnar spacer formed on either one of the array substrate and the opposite substrate and positioned away from the pixel electrode, the columnar spacer overlapping the through-hole and holding the gap between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the opposite substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masumi Manabe, Jin Hirosawa, Masanori Imakawa
  • Publication number: 20090103021
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate including a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, and a pixel electrode formed on the scanning line, the signal line, and the switching element and electrically connected to the switching element, an opposite substrate including a common electrode with a through-hole and arranged opposite to the array substrate with a gap, a columnar spacer formed on either one of the array substrate and the opposite substrate and positioned away from the pixel electrode, the columnar spacer overlapping the through-hole and holding the gap between the array substrate and the opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the array substrate and the opposite substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Masumi MANABE, Jin Hirosawa, Masanori Imakawa
  • Publication number: 20070206135
    Abstract: Island-shaped portions of colored layers each of which constitutes a part of a sub pixel are formed so as to be continuous with each other over the gap between adjacent pixels. The area of the island-shaped portion can be secured even when the size of the pixel is reduced to enhance the fineness, and peeling of the island-shaped portions at the formation time of a color filter layer which occurs in connection with miniaturization of the island-shaped portions can be suppressed, so that the yield can be improved while enhancing the display quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Masumi Manabe, Atsuyuki Manabe, Kisako Ninomiya
  • Publication number: 20070121052
    Abstract: An array substrate comprises a substrate, an underlayer including a plurality of switching elements formed on the substrate, a plurality of colored layers formed on the substrate and the switching elements, and a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the colored layers and connected to the switching elements via contact holes formed in the colored layers, and a plurality of columnar spacers provided on the underlayer. The underlayer includes a plurality of same-structure portions extending perpendicular to the substrate. The columnar spacers are provided on the same-structure portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Hiroharu Inoue, Takeshi Yamamoto, Atsuyuki Manabe, Masumi Manabe
  • Publication number: 20070040964
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, first pixel sections, second pixel sections, a liquid crystal layer, a color filter including first color layers, which form the first pixel sections, and second color layers which form the second pixel sections, and an undercoat insulation film including first light-transmissive inorganic parts, which form the first pixel sections and are set at such a film thickness that a wavelength at which a transmittance spectrum of the first pixel sections increases agrees with a wavelength at which a transmittance spectrum of the first color layers increases, and second light-transmissive inorganic parts which form the second pixel sections and are set at such a film thickness that a wavelength at which a transmittance spectrum of the second pixel sections increases agrees with a wavelength at which a transmittance spectrum of the second color layers increases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shohara, Atsuyuki Manabe, Masumi Manabe, Hiroharu Inoue, Yoshiteru Yamada, Takeshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 6281955
    Abstract: A color filter is disposed on a switching element array substrate. The color filter is composed of a plurality of kinds of color elements and an aperture. Two of the filter elements are overlapped at one end portion thereof. Each of the filter elements is covered with a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode is connected to the switching element through the aperture. This structure reduces electric coupling between the pixel electrode and the gate and signal lines. Optimum conditions among the overlapped width, and the aperture diameter and location are set to prevent the filter element from peeling off the array substrate so that the production yield can be significantly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Teruyuki Midorikawa, Yasuharu Tanaka, Masumi Manabe, Minako Kurosaki, Muneharu Akiyoshi, Daisuke Miyazaki, Hitoshi Hatoh
  • Patent number: 6238754
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device, comprising two substrates each having an alignment film, a sealing member arranged in the outer peripheries of the two substrates to permit the outer peripheries of these two substrates, which are arranged such that the alignment films of these two substrates face each other, to be bonded to each other except a liquid crystal filling port, a spacer for keeping the two substrates a predetermined distance apart from each other, a liquid crystal layer formed by filling a liquid crystal material through the liquid crystal filling port into the clearance between the two substrates, and an end-sealing material for sealing the liquid crystal filling port, wherein total amounts of an alkyl acid, phenyl carboxylic acid or a phenyl carboxylic acid derivative, phenylene dicarboxylic acid or a phenylene dicarboxylic acid derivative, an alkyl amine, aniline or an aniline derivative, phenylene diamine or a phenylene diamine derivative, phenyleneamine carboxylic acid or a phenyl
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Shohara, Daisuke Miyazaki, Natsuko Maya, Muneharu Akiyoshi, Atsuyuki Manabe, Masumi Manabe, Nobuko Fukuoka, Kisako Ninomiya, Hitoshi Hatoh