Patents by Inventor Norman Herron

Norman Herron 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: 20110260142
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electroluminescent layer therebetween. The electroluminescent layer includes: a first electroluminescent material having an emission color that is blue; and a second electroluminescent material having an emission color that is yellow. The additive mixing of the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel David Lecloux, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110260144
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electroluminescent layer therebetween. The electroluminescent layer includes: a host material capable of electroluminescence having an emission color that is blue-green; and an electroluminescent dopant having an emission color that is red/red-orange. The additive mixing of the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel David Lecloux, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110260603
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an electroluminescent layer therebetween. The electroluminescent layer includes: a first electroluminescent material having an emission color that is blue; a second electroluminescent material having an emission color that is green; and a third electroluminescent material having an emission color that is orange. The additive mixing of all the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel David Lecloux, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110260143
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and an electroluminescent layer therebetween. The electroluminescent layer includes: a first electroluminescent material having an emission color that is blue; a second electroluminescent material having an emission color that is green; and a third electroluminescent material having an emission color that is red. The additive mixing of all the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel David Lecloux, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110220885
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to chrysene compounds with deep blue emission that are useful in electroluminescent applications. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a chrysene compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Inventors: VSEVOLOD ROSTOVTSEV, Reid John Chesterfield, Norman Herron, Kerwin D. Dobbs, Jeffrey A. Merlo
  • Publication number: 20110215715
    Abstract: This invention relates to chrysene compounds that are useful in electroluminescent applications and are capable of blue or green emission. It also relates to electronic devices in which the active layer includes such a chrysene compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Weishi Wu, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev, Jeffrey A. Merlo, Weiying Gao
  • Publication number: 20110204337
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue and a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is yellow, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels. The additive mixing of the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110204340
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue; a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is green, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels; and a third plurality of pixels having an emission color that is red, the third plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first and second pluralities of pixels. The additive mixing of all the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110204338
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue; a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is green, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels; and a third plurality of pixels having an emission color that is orange, the third plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first and second pluralities of pixels. The additive mixing of all the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110204335
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue-green and a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is red/red-orange, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels. The additive mixing of the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110204336
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue and a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is red-orange, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels. The additive mixing of the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110204339
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting diode luminaire. The luminaire includes a patterned first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer therebetween. The light-emitting layer includes a first plurality of pixels having an emission color that is blue; a second plurality of pixels having an emission color that is green, the second plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first plurality of pixels; and a third plurality of pixels having an emission color that is red-orange, the third plurality of pixels being laterally spaced from the first and second pluralities of pixels. The additive mixing of all the emitted colors results in an overall emission of white light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Kerwin D. Dobbs, Norman Herron, Vsevolod Rostovtsev
  • Publication number: 20110198580
    Abstract: There is provided a photoactive composition including: (a) a first host material comprising a phenanthroline derivative; (b) a second host material comprising an aromatic amine; and (c) an electroluminescent dopant material. The weight ratio of first host material to second host material is in the range of 99:1 to 50:50.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Ying Wang
  • Publication number: 20110198575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds and polymers, compositions comprising novel compounds or polymers, and electronic devices comprising at least one layer containing the compound or polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: NORA SABINA RADU, Gary A. Johansson, Norman Herron, Jeffrey A. Merlo, Ying Wang
  • Publication number: 20110186836
    Abstract: There is provided a green luminescent material having Formula I or Formula II R1 and R2 can be the same or different and can be hydrogen, alkoxy, tertiary alkyl, or cycloalkyl. R3 and R4 are the same or different and can be fluorine, aryl, or alkyl. There is also provided an organic electronic device containing the green luminescent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: E.I.DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: NORMAN HERRON, Mark A. Guidry, Vsevolod Rostovtsev, Jeffrey A. Merlo, Kalindi Dogra, Victoria J. North
  • Publication number: 20110186835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new electronic devices including a layer comprising a photoactive material and metal Schiff base complex, wherein the metal Schiff base complex is present as a host for the photoactive material or in a layer between the cathode and the photoactive material containing layer, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Ying Wang, Lucy M. Clarkson
  • Publication number: 20110147718
    Abstract: There is provided an electroactive composition including: a deuterated first host material and an electroluminescent dopant material. The first host is a compound having Formula I: The compound of Formula I is deuterated. In Formula I: Ar1 to Ar4 are the same or different and are aryl; Q is a multivalent aryl group or where T is (CR?)a, SiR2, S, SO2, PR, PO, PO2, BR, or R; R is the same or different at each occurrence and is an alkyl group or an ary group; R? is the same or different at each occurrence and is selected H, D, or alkyl; a is an integer from 1-6; and m is an integer from 0-6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: E.I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Henry Howard, JR., Nora Sabina Radu, Weishi Wu, Weiying Gao, Norman Herron, Eric Maurice Smith, Christina M. Older, Adam Fennimore, Ying Wang, Daniel David Lecloux, Kalindi Dogra, Vsevolod Rostovtsev, Jerald Feldman, Siddhartha Shenoy
  • Publication number: 20110140092
    Abstract: The present invention relates to charge transport compositions. The invention further relates to electronic devices in which there is at least one active layer comprising such charge transport compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Mark A. Guidry, Daniel David Lecloux, Nora Sabina Radu, Eric Maurice Smith, Ying Wang
  • Patent number: 7960587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds and compositions comprising novel oligomers and polymers, and electronic device comprising at least one layer containing the compositions. The novel oligomers and polymers can be solubilized, and can be used in solution to form electronic devices. The compounds can function as monomers, and copolymers can be formed from such monomers, such copolymers comprising, as polymerized units, a plurality of units of the compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Gary A. Johansson, Nora Sabina Radu, Eric Maurice Smith, Arthur Dabrowski, Frederick P. Gentry, Gene M. Rossi
  • Publication number: 20110133173
    Abstract: The present invention relates to charge transport compositions. The invention further relates to electronic devices in which there is at least one active layer comprising such charge transport compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Norman Herron, Mark A. Guidry, Daniel David Lecloux, Nora Sabina Radu, Eric Maurice Smith, Ying Wang