Patents by Inventor Osamu Yokoyama

Osamu Yokoyama 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: 20070249076
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: an organic thin-film transistor element including at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Masaya Ishida, Masahiro Furusawa, Katsuyuki Morii, Osamu Yokoyama, Satoru Miyashita, Tatsuya Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7253433
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device comprising: an organic thin-film transistor element including at least an active layer made of an organic material; and an organic electroluminescent element driven by the organic thin-film transistor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Ishida, Masahiro Furusawa, Katsuyuki Morii, Osamu Yokoyama, Satoru Miyashita, Tatsuya Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7205964
    Abstract: The invention provides electroluminescent (EL) elements, such that a red EL light source, a green EL light source and a blue EL light source emit red color light, green color light, and blue color light, respectively, and are disposed at the rear of liquid crystal display elements. Each EL light source includes an organic EL element in which an organic thin film emits light. Each EL light source has a structure in which an organic luminescent layer is sandwiched between an indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode and a metal electrode which have striped patterns which are orthogonal to each other, and sections (luminescent sections) at which the striped patterns of the ITO electrode and the metal electrode intersect with each other emit light. The luminescent sections are arrayed two-dimensionally on a glass substrate and illuminate the entire display area of the liquid crystal display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Satoru Miyashita, Tatsuya Shimoda, Yasunori Taga, Shizuo Tokito, Koji Noda
  • Patent number: 7190116
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device capable of narrowing the area of the frame. In order to achieve this object, the display device according to the present invention has a substrate having a plurality of arranged display elements and a wiring layer of a power source on the peripheral side; a bank layer for mutually separating the display elements; an electrode layer for covering the plurality of display elements and the bank layer; and a sealing substrate for further covering the electrode layer by joining the peripheral portion of the substrate and the sealing portion circling around the periphery via a joining element such as an adhesive; wherein the periphery of the sealing substrate is positioned inside the periphery of the substrate, and the peripheral portion of the electrode layer is connected to the wiring of the power source within the sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kobayashi, Osamu Yokoyama, Yojiro Matsueda
  • Publication number: 20070048539
    Abstract: A hydrous oxide film is formed on the surface of a superplastic forming aluminum alloy sheet. The superplastic forming aluminum alloy sheet can be formed without applying a lubricant to a die, exhibits excellent releasability, and prevents scratches due to sliding between the die and the sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Uchida, Yasunori Nagai, Takamichi Watanabe, Hitoshi Kazama, Osamu Yokoyama, Kazuya Saito
  • Patent number: 7131735
    Abstract: A light source device, comprising a light guide block that is provided with an inner wall capable of reflecting light and is shaped as a hollow component to form a light guide, and a point light source array that is located opposite one end face of the light guide block and is capable of emitting light into the light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 7126652
    Abstract: A red light source comprising an array of LEDs 102R that emit light of a red color, a green light source comprising an array of LEDs 102G that emit light of a green color, and a blue light source comprising an array of LEDs 102B that emit light of a blue color are deployed about the periphery of a dichroic prism 101. A liquid crystal display element is illuminated by a light source device configured such that the light from the respective light sources is synthesized into white light by the dichroic prism, and projection type liquid crystal display devices and the like are configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Tatsuya Shimoda, Satoru Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20060172992
    Abstract: An agent for treating overactive bladder resulting from cerebral infarction, comprising administrating a compound having a cholinesterase inhibitory activity or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Applicant: EISAI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Masaharu Nakai
  • Publication number: 20060135507
    Abstract: A method for treating overactive bladder involved in aging, comprising administrating a compound having a cholinesterase inhibitory activity, a pharmacologically acceptable salt or a solvate thereof to a patient with the overactive bladder involved in aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2005
    Publication date: June 22, 2006
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Masaharu Nakai, Hironobu Akino
  • Patent number: 7038377
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device capable of narrowing the area of the frame. In order to achieve this object, the display device according to the present invention has a substrate having a plurality of arranged display elements and a wiring layer of a power source on the peripheral side; a bank layer for mutually separating the display elements; an electrode layer for covering the plurality of display elements and the bank layer; and a sealing substrate for further covering the electrode layer by joining the peripheral portion of the substrate and the sealing portion circling around the periphery via a joining element such as an adhesive; wherein the periphery of the sealing substrate is positioned inside the periphery of the substrate, and the peripheral portion of the electrode layer is connected to the wiring of the power source within the sealing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kobayashi, Osamu Yokoyama, Yojiro Matsueda
  • Publication number: 20060035106
    Abstract: An aluminum alloy sheet for high-speed high-temperature blow forming has an aluminum alloy containing 4 to 5% of Mg, 0.35 to 0.5% of Mn and 0.001 to 0.05% of Cr, 0.6% or less of Si+Fe, 0.15% or less of Cu, and the balance being substantially Al. The aluminum alloy sheet has an elongation of 150% or more in a high-temperature tensile test at 400 to 550° C. and at a strain rate of 10?2/second or more, has a cavitation area percentage of 2% or less at the time of 100% tensile deformation, and is free from any abnormally grown grains of 100 microns or more. A formed piece of the aluminum alloy sheet also has a cavitation area percentage of 2% or less when blow-formed at 400 to 550° C. and at a reduction in sheet thickness of 65% or less, and is free from any abnormally grown grains of 100 microns or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Applicants: Furukawa-Sky Aluminum Corp., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Noguchi, Toshiyasu Ukena, Hitoshi Kazama, Kunihiro Yasunaga, Osamu Yokoyama, Keiichiro Nakao
  • Publication number: 20050274960
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes electroluminescent elements, each electroluminescent element having an anode layer; a cathode layer; a plurality of light-emitting layers that are laminated between the anode layer and the cathode layer; transmissive intermediate electrode layers, each being formed between the plurality of light-emitting layers, and a partially reflecting layer. In the light-emitting device, one electrode layer of the anode layer and the cathode layer has transmittance to exit light, and the partially reflecting layer is disposed at the side of that one electrode layer remote from the light-emitting layers, and forms an optical resonator together with the other electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2005
    Publication date: December 15, 2005
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Shigeo Nojima
  • Publication number: 20050146652
    Abstract: A red light source comprising an array of LEDs 102R that emit light of a red color, a green light source comprising an array of LEDs 102G that emit light of a green color, and a blue light source comprising an array of LEDs 102B that emit light of a blue color are deployed about the periphery of a dichroic prism 101. A liquid crystal display element is illuminated by a light source device configured such that the light from the respective light sources is synthesized into white light by the dichroic prism, and projection type liquid crystal display devices and the like are configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Tatsuya Shimoda, Satoru Miyashita
  • Publication number: 20050117293
    Abstract: To provide a display device with high reliability, which is capable of supporting a display panel well even when the display panel is enlarged, and capable of radiating the heat generated in the display panel well. A display device 100 of the present invention has an organic EL panel (display panel) 150 and a reinforcing structure 160 provided on the backside of the display panel 150. The reinforcing structure 160 comprises a base plate 161 forming a part adhered to a back face of the organic EL panel 150, and a heat radiation member 170 provided on the base plate 161.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6900858
    Abstract: A liquid-crystal projection device includes an organic electroluminescent element that is sandwiched by an organic thin-film layer between an electrode layer that reflects light and a transparent electrode layer that transmits light, and a transparent liquid crystal panel that controls passage of light emitted from the surface of the organic electroluminescent element and also includes a half-mirror layer arranged on the side where light is output from the transparent electrode layer. Some of the incoming light is reflected through the transparent electrode layer to another electrode layer and the rest of the light is transmitted the distance between the half-mirror layer. The electrode layer is set to the optical distance of resonance of the light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Satoru Miyashita, Tatsuya Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20050112408
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a display device capable of narrowing the area of the frame. In order to achieve this object, the display device according to the present invention has a substrate having a plurality of arranged display elements and a wiring layer of a power source on the peripheral side; a bank layer for mutually separating the display elements; an electrode layer for covering the plurality of display elements and the bank layer; and a sealing substrate for further covering the electrode layer by joining the peripheral portion of the substrate and the sealing portion circling around the periphery via a joining element such as an adhesive; wherein the periphery of the sealing substrate is positioned inside the periphery of the substrate, and the peripheral portion of the electrode layer is connected to the wiring of the power source within the sealing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kobayashi, Osamu Yokoyama, Yojiro Matsueda
  • Patent number: 6882379
    Abstract: A red light source comprising an array of LEDs 102R that emit light of a red color, a green light source comprising an array of LEDs 102G that emit light of a green color, and a blue light source comprising an array of LEDs 102B that emit light of a blue color are deployed about the periphery of a dichroic prism 101. A liquid crystal display element is illuminated by a light source device configured such that the light from the respective light sources is synthesized into white light by the dichroic prism, and projection type liquid crystal display devices and the like are configured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Tatsuya Shimoda, Satoru Miyashita
  • Patent number: 6820994
    Abstract: A composite lighting device is provided, which is inexpensive and has high uniformity in brightness, in which light emitted from an end face of a backlight having an organic EL device is used to illuminate input buttons and the like. The lighting device includes a transparent substrate having one principal plane on which a transparent electrode film, a luminescent layer, and a reflective electrode film are at least formed. In the lighting device, a liquid crystal display unit is adjacently disposed on the other principal plane, and a light-guide element is adjacent to an end face of the substrate, so that input buttons embedded into the light-guide element are illuminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Funamoto, Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6809709
    Abstract: The invention provides an organic electro-luminescence device which can be used as a cover glass of a wristwatch or the like by virtue of its transparency, produces a plurality of colors, illuminates and displays at the same time, and is formed by an easy method. A transparent organic EL device emitting yellow light is formed on a first surface of a substrate by being patterned so as to display characters. A transparent organic EL device emitting blue light is formed on a second surface by being patterned so as to generate light at the overall surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Uchida, Osamu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 6805448
    Abstract: A projection display apparatus employing organic EL elements is presented that is light in weight, is small in size, and can be practically implemented. In particular, the apparatus suppresses light-emission performance degradation caused by generated heat, thereby extending useful life, stabilizing brightness, and securing continual maximum brightness. The apparatus comprises: liquid crystal panels 12R, 12G, and 12B; light emitting units 13R, 13G, and 13B, positioned at the back of the liquid crystal panels and provided with organic EL elements as light emitting layers; and cooling bodies 14R, 14G, and 14B, positioned at the back of the light emitting units, for dispersing the heat generated by the light emitting layers. The cooling bodies 14R, 14G, and 14B may, for example, be electronic cooling elements that employ the Peltier effect to absorb and radiate the generated heat. Alternatively, the cooling bodies may be configured as heat-dispersing fins that guide and disperse generated heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yokoyama, Satoru Miyashita, Hiroshi Kamakura, Tatsuya Shimoda