Patents by Inventor Naohisa Andou

Naohisa Andou 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: 20180019417
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes the steps of preparing a spacer that includes a first alignment mark, forming a notch on a back reinforcing film and cutting the back reinforcing film in a size corresponding to a size of a first bottom surface, disposing the back reinforcing film on a back surface side of a display area, disposing the spacer on a back surface side of a flexible substrate, and bending a bent area so as to conform to a shape of the spacer and disposing a terminal area on a back surface side of the spacer. In the step of disposing the spacer, viewed from the back surface side of the flexible substrate, the spacer is positioned on the back reinforcing film based on a position of the notch and a position of the first alignment mark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naohisa ANDOU
  • Patent number: 9761835
    Abstract: A display device includes a protective film attached to a display surface as a surface of at least one of a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate, and an adhesive material attaching the protective film to the display surface. The display surface includes a display area in which an image is displayed, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The adhesive material includes a first adhesive portion and a second adhesive portion. The first adhesive portion is in the peripheral area, and discontinuously surrounds the display area with a disconnected portion. The second adhesive portion is provided in the peripheral area inside or outside the first adhesive portion and the disconnected portion with a gap between the second adhesive portion, and the first adhesive portion and the disconnected portion, so as to be next to the disconnected portion over the entire length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naohisa Andou
  • Publication number: 20170250366
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a base material; a display region over the base material; a wiring over the base material, the wiring extending from the display region to an outside of the display region; and a pair of metal films over the base material, where the wiring is located between the pair of metal films in a plane view. The display region may be positioned between the pair of metal films, and the wiring and the pair of metal films may exist in the same layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Naohisa ANDOU, Kazuto Tsuruoka
  • Publication number: 20170229673
    Abstract: A flexible display includes a display region and a peripheral region arranged in a length direction, is bent in the peripheral region around an axis extending in a width direction orthogonal to the length direction, and is provided with a light-emitting element layer in the display region. A spacer is disposed inside a bend of the flexible display, includes both end portions on both sides in the width direction, and includes a guide surface regulating the bend. The both end portions of the spacer project from the flexible display in the width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Naohisa ANDOU
  • Publication number: 20170229666
    Abstract: A flexible display is bent in an intermediate region such that a first region and a second region overlap each other. A spacer is disposed inside a bend of the flexible display. The spacer includes a front-side region overlapping the first region, a back-side region overlapping the second region, and a guide region overlapping the intermediate region and regulating the bend. The spacer includes, in the front-side region, a first step and a first bottom surface recessed below the guide region. The spacer includes, in the back-side region, a second step and a second bottom surface recessed below the guide region. An interval between a second reinforcing film and a second raised surface located at the second step is larger than an interval between a first reinforcing film and a first raised surface located at the first step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuto TSURUOKA, Naohisa ANDOU, Takashi SAEKI, Megumi SENDA, Yusuke GOTO
  • Publication number: 20170097535
    Abstract: A display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a display region arranged above a flexible substrate, the display region including a first display region and a second display region continuing from the first display region, at least the second display region including a curved surface. The second display region is located at a position where an image displayed in the second display region is not seen directly when viewing the first display region from a perpendicular direction with respect to a center part of the first display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Naohisa ANDOU, Tomoki NAKAMURA, Yoshihiro KANNO
  • Publication number: 20160276626
    Abstract: A display device includes a protective film attached to a display surface as a surface of at least one of a first insulating substrate and a second insulating substrate, and an adhesive material attaching the protective film to the display surface. The display surface includes a display area in which an image is displayed, and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The adhesive material includes a first adhesive portion and a second adhesive portion. The first adhesive portion is in the peripheral area, and discontinuously surrounds the display area with a disconnected portion. The second adhesive portion is provided in the peripheral area inside or outside the first adhesive portion and the disconnected portion with a gap between the second adhesive portion, and the first adhesive portion and the disconnected portion, so as to be next to the disconnected portion over the entire length thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventor: Naohisa ANDOU
  • Publication number: 20160025963
    Abstract: The objective is to cause a substrate on which a shutter is provided and a substrate that opposes it to be electrically continuous. [Means of Solution] On a first substrate 10, a shutter 28 that controls the passing or blocking of light, a driver 52 for driving the shutter 28, and a protruding part 62 having a plurality of side faces 66 rising from the first substrate 10 so as to circumscribe a prescribed space are respectively provided so as to contain a laminate structure of a first conducting film 54 and an insulating film 16. The outermost layer of the respective plurality of side faces 66 is made of the insulating film 16 that covers the first conducting film 54, and has an aperture 68 which exposes part of the first conducting film 54.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Naohisa Andou, Hiroshi Kawanakago, Kohei Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20160018636
    Abstract: [Problem] An object of the present invention is to electrically connect a substrate and an opposing substrate. [Resolving Means] A display device includes a first substrate 10 stacked with a circuit layer 48 for displaying an image, the circuit layer 48 covered by an insulating film 38, the circuit layer 48 including a first conductive film 54, formed with a penetration hole 56 in the insulating film 38, and formed with a hole in a first conductive film 54; a second substrate formed with a second conductive film 40, disposed so that insulating film 38 and the second conductive film 40 are opposed; and a conductive material 60 interposed between the first substrate 10 and the second substrate 12, so that the conductive material touches an inner face of the hole 58 in the first conductive film 54 and the second conductive film 40.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: PIXTRONIX INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kawanakago, Naohisa Andou
  • Publication number: 20120307192
    Abstract: Provided is a display device including: a pair of light transmissive substrates which are arranged so as to be opposed to each other at an interval; a sealing member for adhering the pair of light transmissive substrates to each other; oil filled in an encapsulation space; and a shutter formed on one of the pair of light transmissive substrates and arranged in the encapsulation space, in which the sealing member has a thermal expansion coefficient ? larger than a thermal expansion coefficient ? of the oil, or a relationship of 0.8????1.2? is satisfied therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Naohisa ANDOU, Takahiko Muneyoshi
  • Publication number: 20120300494
    Abstract: Light sources include a pair of first light sources located at both ends in an arrangement direction and a second light source located between the first light sources. Each of directions in which the first light sources face is set so as to cross a direction in which the second light source faces. Each of the first light sources has first light-emitting portions arranged along a circumferential edge and emitting lights of different colors. The second light source has second light-emitting portions arranged along the circumferential edge and emitting lights of different colors. Light emitted by one of the first light-emitting portions which is nearest to the second light-emitting portions is the same in color as light emitted by one of the second light-emitting portions which is nearest to the first light-emitting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Kazufumi WATABE, Masayuki Mifune, Takahiko Muneyoshi, Naohisa Andou, Mitsuhide Miyamoto