Patents by Inventor Norifumi Kajimoto

Norifumi Kajimoto 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: 11128791
    Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a photoelectric conversion layer that contains a first organic semiconductor, a second organic semiconductor, and a third organic semiconductor, and a cathode. As each of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor, a low-molecular weight organic semiconductor is used. The first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor have mass ratios that satisfy the following relationship: the first organic semiconductor?the second organic semiconductor?the third organic semiconductor. Further, when a total amount of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor is 100 mass %, a content of the second organic semiconductor is 6 mass % or more, and a content of the third organic semiconductor is 3 mass % or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Tomona Yamaguchi, Hiroki Ohrui, Hironobu Iwawaki, Masumi Itabashi, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita, Norifumi Kajimoto, Moe Takahira, Isao Kawata, Yuto Ito
  • Publication number: 20210202848
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL elements. Each of the organic EL elements includes a reflection electrode, a hole transport region, an electron-trapping luminescent layer, and a light extraction electrode in this order. The hole transport region has a sheet resistance of 4.0×107 ?/sq.? or more at a current of 0.1 nA/pixel, and the total thickness of the hole transport region and the electron-trapping luminescent layer is equivalent to an optical path length enabling emission from the electron-trapping luminescent layer to be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Itaru Takaya, Hirokazu Miyashita, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 10985323
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a plurality of organic EL elements. Each of the organic EL elements includes a reflection electrode, a hole transport region, an electron-trapping luminescent layer, and a light extraction electrode in this order. The hole transport region has a sheet resistance of 4.0×107 ?/sq. or more at a current of 0.1 nA/pixel, and the total thickness of the hole transport region and the electron-trapping luminescent layer is equivalent to an optical path length enabling emission from the electron-trapping luminescent layer to be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Itaru Takaya, Hirokazu Miyashita, Takayuki Ito, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20210098536
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20210074951
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes an insulating layer including a light-emitting region including a light-emitting element, and a groove provided in the insulating layer. The groove is provided in a portion between the light-emitting region and an end of the insulating layer, and has a zigzag pattern or a wrapping pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 10896934
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 10840470
    Abstract: One embodiment of this invention has a first electrode, a first light emitting layer, and a second electrode, in which the first light emitting layer has a first host material and a first dopant material, a lowest triplet excitation energy of the first host material is higher than a lowest triplet excitation energy of the first dopant material, and, when a weight of the first light emitting layer is set to 100 wt %, a concentration of the first dopant material is 0.3 wt % or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Satoru Shiobara, Koichi Ishige, Tomona Yamaguchi, Koji Ishizuya, Takayuki Ito, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20200358032
    Abstract: An organic device comprising a reflective electrode, an organic layer arranged on the reflective electrode, a semi-transmissive electrode arranged on the organic layer and a reflection surface formed above the semi-transmissive electrode is provided. The organic layer emits white light and includes a blue-emitting layer. An optical distance L of the organic layer satisfies L [{@r+?s)/?}×(?b/4)]×1.2, where ?b is a peak wavelength of the blue-emitting layer, ?r and ?s are a phase shift of the wavelength ?b in the reflective electrode and the semi-transmissive electrode, respectively. A resonant wavelength of an optical distance between the semi-transmissive electrode and the reflection surface is shorter than the wavelength ?b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Takayuki Ito
  • Patent number: 10790465
    Abstract: A white organic electroluminescent (EL) element includes, in sequence, an anode, a first light-emitting layer that is a blue-light-emitting layer, a hole-blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode. The hole-blocking layer is adjacent to the first light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer and formed of a hydrocarbon. The electron transport layer is formed of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound. The first light-emitting layer contains a first host and a first dopant that emits blue fluorescent light. Relations (a), (b), and (c) are satisfied. LUMO(H1)>LUMO(D1)??(a) 0.1<d(ETL)/d(HBL)<0.7??(b) 90 nm?d(E)=d(HBL)+d(ETL)<150 nm??(c) LUMO (H1): lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy of first host LUMO (D1): LUMO energy of first dopant d (HBL): thickness of hole-blocking layer d (ETL): thickness of electron transport layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tomokazu Kotake, Hirokazu Miyashita, Itaru Takaya, Takayuki Ito, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20200259113
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a plurality of first electrodes, a second electrode, a functional layer disposed between each first electrode and the second electrode, and an insulating layer having a slope portion on the first electrode, wherein the functional layer is continuously disposed so as to cover the first electrode, a neighboring first electrode, and the insulating layer covering the first electrode and the neighboring first electrode, the functional layer on the first electrode has a layer thickness smaller than a height from an upper surface of the first electrode to an upper surface of the insulating layer, and the functional layer on the slope portion of the insulating layer has a layer thickness of 20 nm or more in a direction perpendicular to a slope surface of the slope portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Norifumi Kajimoto, Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano, Hiroyuki Mochizuki
  • Patent number: 10734455
    Abstract: An organic device is provided. The device comprises a substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements formed on a first surface of the substrate. Each of the plurality of light emitting elements includes, from a side of the first surface, a first electrode, an organic layer formed on the first electrode and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. The organic device further comprises a third electrode formed between the first electrodes of adjacent light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting elements, and an insulating layer covering a portion between the first electrode and the third electrode, an end portion of the first electrode, and an end portion of the third electrode. The insulating layer includes a recess between the first electrode and the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano
  • Patent number: 10651422
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a light-emitting apparatus including a plurality of types of light-emitting pixels, each of the light-emitting pixels including a reflective electrode, an electrode-protective layer, an organic compound layer containing a light-emitting layer, and a light-output electrode in this order and having a resonator structure, wherein at least one type of the plurality of types of light-emitting pixels is a light-emitting pixel having a greater interference order than other types of light-emitting pixels, and the electrode-protective layer of the light-emitting pixel having the greater interference order has a greater layer thickness than the electrode-protective layers of the other types of light-emitting pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 10637004
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light-emitting element for emitting white light in which an optical distance L1 between a first emission layer (52) and a reflective electrode (80) satisfies Expression (a), and an optical distance L2 between a second emission layer (72) and the reflective electrode (80) satisfies Expression (b): (?1/8)×(3?(2?1/?))<L1<(?1/8)×(5?(2?1/?))??(a); and (?2/8)×(?(2?2/?)?1)<L2<(?2/8)×(?(2?2/?)+1)??(b), and in which a refractive index of a first charge transport layer (51) formed between a light extraction electrode (4) and the first emission layer (52) at the wavelength ?1 is 1.70 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20200044175
    Abstract: A white organic electroluminescent (EL) element includes, in sequence, an anode, a first light-emitting layer that is a blue-light-emitting layer, a hole-blocking layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode. The hole-blocking layer is adjacent to the first light-emitting layer and the electron transport layer and formed of a hydrocarbon. The electron transport layer is formed of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound. The first light-emitting layer contains a first host and a first dopant that emits blue fluorescent light. Relations (a), (b), and (c) are satisfied. LUMO(H1)>LUMO(D1)??(a) 0.1<d(ETL)/d(HBL)<0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Tomokazu Kotake, Hirokazu Miyashita, Itaru Takaya, Takayuki Ito, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20190393272
    Abstract: An organic device is provided. The device comprises a substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements formed on a first surface of the substrate. Each of the plurality of light emitting elements includes, from a side of the first surface, a first electrode, an organic layer formed on the first electrode and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. The organic device further comprises a third electrode formed between the first electrodes of adjacent light emitting elements of the plurality of light emitting elements, and an insulating layer covering a portion between the first electrode and the third electrode, an end portion of the first electrode, and an end portion of the third electrode. The insulating layer includes a recess between the first electrode and the third electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Norifumi Kajimoto, Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Hiroaki Sano
  • Publication number: 20190364191
    Abstract: Provided is a photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a photoelectric conversion layer that contains a first organic semiconductor, a second organic semiconductor, and a third organic semiconductor, and a cathode. As each of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor, a low-molecular weight organic semiconductor is used. The first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor have mass ratios that satisfy the following relationship: the first organic semiconductor?the second organic semiconductor?the third organic semiconductor. Further, when a total amount of the first organic semiconductor, the second organic semiconductor, and the third organic semiconductor is 100 mass %, a content of the second organic semiconductor is 6 mass % or more, and a content of the third organic semiconductor is 3 mass % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Satoru Shiobara, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Tomona Yamaguchi, Hiroki Ohrui, Hironobu Iwawaki, Masumi Itabashi, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita, Norifumi Kajimoto, Moe Takahira, Isao Kawata, Yuto Ito
  • Patent number: 10468614
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion element including a lower electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and an upper electrode in this order; a voltage is applied between the lower electrode and the upper electrode; the photoelectric conversion layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound; the first organic compound has a lower oxidation potential than the second organic compound, and ?E represented by the following formula (A) satisfies the following formula (B); where ?E=oxidation potential of first organic compound?reduction potential of second organic compound (A) ?E?1.79[V]??(B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Naoki Yamada, Tetsuo Takahashi, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita, Tomona Yamaguchi, Hironobu Iwawaki, Hiroki Ohrui, Masumi Itabashi, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20190305242
    Abstract: One embodiment of this invention has a first electrode, a first light emitting layer, and a second electrode, in which the first light emitting layer has a first host material and a first dopant material, a lowest triplet excitation energy of the first host material is higher than a lowest triplet excitation energy of the first dopant material, and, when a weight of the first light emitting layer is set to 100 wt %, a concentration of the first dopant material is 0.3 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Satoru Shiobara, Koichi Ishige, Tomona Yamaguchi, Koji Ishizuya, Takayuki Ito, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20190305051
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device including a substrate, a first EL element, and a second EL element, the first EL element and the second EL element each including a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including a light-emitting layer, an upper electrode, and a color filter in this order from the substrate, and an insulating layer that covers an end portion of the lower electrode. A first color filter of the first EL element and a second color filter of the second EL element overlap each other when viewed in plan in an overlapping region, and an inclined portion closest to the first EL element among inclined portions of the insulating layer of the second EL element and the overlapping region overlap each other when viewed in plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Koji Ishizuya, Norifumi Kajimoto, Hiroaki Sano, Akira Okita, Etsuro Kishi, Masaki Kurihara, Daisuke Shimoyama
  • Publication number: 20190267411
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element including an anode, a cathode, and a photoelectric conversion layer, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound, and difference between oxidation potential of first organic compound and reduction potential of second organic compound is larger than 1.5 [V], and the first organic compound is any one of general formulae [1] below, a fluoranthene derivative, and a metal complex, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Ar1, Ar2, and Z1 represents a substituent, n1 and n2 represents an integer of 0 to 4, and X1 to X3 represents a nitrogen atom, a sulfur atom, an oxygen atom, or a carbon atom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Naoki Yamada, Tetsuo Takahashi, Jun Kamatani, Yosuke Nishide, Hirokazu Miyashita, Tomona Yamaguchi, Hironobu Iwawaki, Hiroki Ohrui, Norifumi Kajimoto, Masumi Itabashi, Kentaro Ito