Patents by Inventor Naoaki Hashimoto

Naoaki Hashimoto 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: 20180151815
    Abstract: A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers between a pair of electrodes and has low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element including first to third light-emitting layers between a cathode and an anode is provided. The first light-emitting layer includes a first phosphorescent material and a first electron-transport material; the second light-emitting layer includes a second phosphorescent material and a second electron-transport material; the third light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a third electron-transport material; the first to third light-emitting elements are provided in contact with an electron-transport layer positioned on a cathode side; and a triplet excitation energy level of a material included in the electron-transport layer is lower than triplet excitation energy levels of the first electron-transport material and the second electron-transport material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Naoaki Hashimoto, Eriko Saijo, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 9985233
    Abstract: A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoaki Hashimoto, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo, Hiromi Seo, Hiromitsu Kido
  • Publication number: 20180130855
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device with low power consumption and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a third light-emitting element, and a fourth light-emitting element. The first to fourth light-emitting elements include the same EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent substance. The peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent substance in a toluene solution of the fluorescent substance is 440 nm to 460 nm, preferably 440 nm to 455 nm. The second light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent substance. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue emission. The second light-emitting element exhibits green emission. The third light-emitting element exhibits red emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki SASAKI, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Naoaki HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9899603
    Abstract: An organic compound that emits blue light with high color purity and has a long lifetime is provided as a novel substance. The organic compound is a fluorescent organic compound having a structure in which benzonaphthofuranylamine is bonded to the 1-position and the 6-position of a pyrene skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 9893303
    Abstract: A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers between a pair of electrodes and has low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element including first to third light-emitting layers between a cathode and an anode is provided. The first light-emitting layer includes a first phosphorescent material and a first electron-transport material; the second light-emitting layer includes a second phosphorescent material and a second electron-transport material; the third light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a third electron-transport material; the first to third light-emitting elements are provided in contact with an electron-transport layer positioned on a cathode side; and a triplet excitation energy level of a material included in the electron-transport layer is lower than triplet excitation energy levels of the first electron-transport material and the second electron-transport material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Naoaki Hashimoto, Eriko Saijo, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20180033993
    Abstract: A novel light-emitting element is provided. A light-emitting element with a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency is provided. In the light-emitting element, an EL layer includes a hole-injection layer, a first hole-transport layer, a second hole-transport layer, a third hole-transport layer, a light-emitting layer, a first electron-transport layer, and a second electron-transport layer in this order; the hole-injection layer includes an organic acceptor; the LUMO level of the host material is higher than that of the first electron-transport layer; the LUMO level of the second electron-transport layer is higher than that of the first electron-transport layer; the host material is a substance including a condensed aromatic ring skeleton; and the first and second electron-transport layers each include a substance having a heteroaromatic ring skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Yusuke TAKITA, Naoaki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180026207
    Abstract: To provide a novel fluorescent organic compound (a fluorescent compound). The organic compound is a substance that emits fluorescence and an organic compound (a host material) in which FIA can occur efficiently. In the organic compound, triplet excitons, which do not contribute to light emission, can be efficiently converted into singlet excitons. The use of such an organic compound can increase emission efficiency of a light-emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoko Takeda, Harue OSAKA, Yusuke TAKITA, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Kunihiko SUZUKI, Satoshi SEO
  • Patent number: 9876056
    Abstract: A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device with low power consumption and high reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, a third light-emitting element, and a fourth light-emitting element. The first to fourth light-emitting elements include the same EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer contains a fluorescent substance. The peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of the fluorescent substance in a toluene solution of the fluorescent substance is 440 nm to 460 nm, preferably 440 nm to 455 nm. The second light-emitting layer contains a phosphorescent substance. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue emission. The second light-emitting element exhibits green emission. The third light-emitting element exhibits red emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Tsunenori Suzuki, Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20170250346
    Abstract: A novel compound in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. The organic compound includes an anthracene skeleton, an arylene group, and a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group including a carbazole skeleton. The anthracene skeleton and the substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group including the carbazole skeleton are bonded to each other through the arylene group. The anthracene skeleton includes an aryl group at the 2-position or the 3-position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Tomohiro KUBOTA, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Yusuke TAKITA
  • Publication number: 20170229648
    Abstract: An organic compound that emits blue light with high color purity and has a long lifetime is provided as a novel substance. The organic compound is a fluorescent organic compound having a structure in which benzonaphthofuranylamine is bonded to the 1-position and the 6-position of a pyrene skeleton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20170155072
    Abstract: A light-emitting element that includes a fluorescent material and has a high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA accounts for a high proportion of emissive components is provided. A novel light-emitting device with a high emission efficiency and a low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting element includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer including a host material and an electron-transport layer including a first material in contact with the light-emitting layer. The LUMO level of the first material is lower than that of the host material. The proportion of a delayed fluorescence component due to TTA is greater than or equal to 10 percent of the light emission from the EL layer. The proportion of the delayed fluorescence component due to TTA may be greater than or equal to 15 percent of the light emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Satoshi SEO, Hiromi SEO, Hiromitsu KIDO
  • Publication number: 20170125704
    Abstract: Provided is a novel organic compound or a light-emitting element material. The organic compound includes an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 100 carbon atoms in the 5-position of benzo[a]carbazole and an aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms in the 11-position thereof. The light-emitting element material includes the organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroki Suzuki, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Satoshi SEO, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Naoaki Hashimoto, Yusuke TAKITA
  • Publication number: 20170125703
    Abstract: A novel dibenzocarbazole compound with which a light-emitting element having low power consumption, high reliability, and high color purity can be fabricated is provided. In the dibenzocarbazole compound, an aryl group which has 14 to 30 carbon atoms and at least an anthracene skeleton is bonded to nitrogen of a dibenzo[a,g]carbazole skeleton or a dibenzo[a,i]carbazole skeleton. Furthermore, a light-emitting element including the dibenzocarbazole compound is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HIROKI SUZUKI, SATOSHI SEO, TSUNENORI SUZUKI, NAOAKI HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9586924
    Abstract: An organic compound that emits blue light with high color purity and has a long lifetime is provided as a novel substance. The organic compound is a fluorescent organic compound having a structure in which benzonaphthofuranylamine is bonded to the 1-position and the 6-position of a pyrene skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sachiko Kawakami, Naoaki Hashimoto, Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoshi Seo
  • Publication number: 20170062735
    Abstract: A novel benzotriphenylene compound that can be suitably used as a host material in the case where a light-emitting substance is a fluorescent material. The benzotriphenylene compound is represented by General Formula (G1-1). In General Formula (G1-1), A represents a condensed ring. Each of R1 to R9 and R11 to R14 independently represents any of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms. Ar represents an arylene group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyoko TAKEDA, Hiroshi KADOMA, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20170040535
    Abstract: In an organic compound, two groups each including a benzonaphthofuranylamine skeleton are bonded to a central skeleton including a fluorene skeleton. The organic compound emits favorable blue light. Furthermore, the organic compound has a high hole-transport property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Kaori OGITA, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Yusuke TAKITA, Satoshi SEO
  • Publication number: 20170025621
    Abstract: A light-emitting element that contains a fluorescent compound, which has high efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element in which the proportion of delayed fluorescence to the total light emitted from the light-emitting element is higher than that in a conventional light-emitting element is provided. Emission efficiency of the light-emitting element containing a fluorescent compound can be improved by increasing the probability of TTA caused by an organic compound in an EL layer, converting energy of triplet excitons, which does not contribute to light emission, into energy of singlet excitons, and making the fluorescent compound emit light by energy transfer of the singlet excitons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Suzuki, Satoshi SEO, Harue OSAKA, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Kyoko TAKEDA
  • Publication number: 20160343955
    Abstract: A light-emitting element with high heat resistance and high emission efficiency is provided. A novel heterocyclic compound that can be used in such a light-emitting element is provided. One embodiment of the present invention is a light-emitting element which includes, between a pair of electrodes, a layer containing a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a light-emitting substance; the first organic compound includes one pyrimidine ring and one ring with a hole-transport skeleton; the second organic compound is an aromatic amine; and the light-emitting substance converts triplet excitation energy into light. A combination of the first organic compound, which includes the one pyrimidine ring and the one ring with the hole-transport skeleton, and the second organic compound, which is the aromatic amine, forms an exciplex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideko INOUE, Miyako MORIKUBO, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Hiromi SEO, Satoshi SEO, Miki KANAMOTO, Tomoka NAKAGAWA
  • Publication number: 20160336519
    Abstract: Provided is a novel light-emitting element, a light-emitting element with a long lifetime, or a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency. The light-emitting element includes an EL layer between a pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes at least a light-emitting layer containing a fluorescent substance and a host material, a first electron-transport layer containing a first electron-transport material, and a second electron-transport layer containing a second electron-transport material, which are in contact with each other and in this order. The LUMO level of each of the host material and the second electron-transport material is higher than the LUMO level of the first electron-transport material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Tsunenori SUZUKI, Naoaki HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160315270
    Abstract: To provide a novel heterocyclic compound that can be used as a host material in which a light-emitting substance of a light-emitting layer is dispersed. A heterocyclic compound comprising a dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline ring and two hole-transport skeletons, where the dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline ring and the two hole-transport skeletons are bonded to an aromatic hydrocarbon group. A heterocyclic compound represented by the following general formula (G1) is provided. Note that in the formula, A1 and A2 each independently represent any of a substituted or unsubstituted carbazole skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuran skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophen skeleton; B represents a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline skeleton; and Ar represents an arene skeleton having 6 to 13 carbon atoms. A light-emitting element including the heterocyclic compound is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Satoshi SEO, Satoko SHITAGAKI, Miyako MORIKUBO, Naoaki HASHIMOTO, Takahiro ISHISONE, Kyoko TAKEDA, Hiromi SEO