Patents by Inventor Ryohki Itoh

Ryohki Itoh 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: 8917374
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device in which, even when a columnar spacer is misaligned, the columnar spacer can be light-shielded without reduction of an aperture ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masaharu Akitomo, Ryohki Itoh
  • Publication number: 20140327035
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of first lines extending parallel to each other, and a plurality of second lines extending parallel to each other, and crossing the plurality of first lines with an insulation film therebetween. The active matrix substrate also includes a plurality of lead-out lines connecting an end of at least one of the plurality of first lines and the plurality of second lines with a driver, and extending spaced apart from each other in a non-display region, and a plurality of redundant wirings extending along the plurality of lead-out lines with an insulation film therebetween. Each of the plurality of lead-out lines overlaps, in plan view, with an overlapping region of any of the plurality of redundant wirings. Each of the plurality of redundant wirings has a length shorter than an arbitrary one of the plurality of lead-out lines overlapping at the overlapping region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Ryohki Itoh
  • Patent number: 8743305
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device in which lengths (d1 and1 d2) of respective picture element electrodes (60) in an extended direction of scanning signal lines (32) are longer than lengths (d3) of the respective picture element electrodes (60) in an extended direction of video signal lines (35) is arranged such that storage capacitor lines (36) are provided along the respective scanning signal lines (32) so as to overlap the respective picture element electrodes (60) via an insulating film (70) in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Masakatsu Tominaga, Junichi Morinaga, Ryohki Itoh, Katsushige Asada, Hironobu Sawada, Hitoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8736779
    Abstract: A high-quality display is achieved by suppressing a disturbance in alignment in a liquid crystal display panel including a substrate structured so that a slit in a pixel electrode intersects with a scanning signal line or an auxiliary capacitor line. An active matrix substrate (10) includes: a pixel electrode (12) having a slit; and an auxiliary capacitor line (14). In a region of intersection between the slit (15) and the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or a scanning signal line (21), at least a drain line (13) or a data signal line (22) is provided between a layer of the pixel electrode (12) and a layer of the auxiliary capacitor line (14) or of the scanning signal line (21) in such a way as to cover the auxiliary capacitor line (12) or the scanning signal line (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh
  • Patent number: 8717268
    Abstract: A display device prevents luminance unevenness that occurs in the case of inversion driving being performed, and performs high quality image display, while selectively scanning two lines of picture elements constituting a single pixel using a single gate wiring, as in the case of multi-primary color image display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 8681297
    Abstract: When viewed from the top of the liquid crystal display panel, a projecting section (4a) of a picture element electrode (4) is formed so as to at least partially match a contact hole (17). It is therefore possible to provide the liquid crystal display panel which achieves a high quality display and has a high aperture ratio and high transmittance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Takaharu Yamada, Satoshi Horiuchi, Ryohki Itoh
  • Patent number: 8648889
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, in an even-numbered signal line group, the arrangement sequence of the first and second signal lines is reversed between in a display area and in a non-display area, and the same goes for the arrangement sequence of the third and fourth signal lines. The ends of the first to sixteenth signal lines in the non-display area are connected to the first to sixteenth individual drivers, respectively. An odd-numbered individual driver and an even-numbered individual driver each output a corresponding one of drive signals of opposite polarity. Thus, the polarities of subpixels of the same color arranged in a first direction D1 (horizontal direction) differ between the subpixels connected to the odd-numbered signal line group and the subpixels connected to the even-numbered signal line group. That is, all of the subpixels having the same color arranged in the horizontal direction do not have the same polarity. This helps reduce a horizontal shadow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Hideki Morii, Takayuki Mizunaga
  • Patent number: 8593584
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid-crystal display device in which a pixel defect does not occur even when an electrode becomes disconnected. The liquid-crystal display device according to the present invention comprises a liquid crystal layer and a pair of substrates between which the liquid crystal layer is interposed. At least one of the pair of substrates includes an electrode that applies a voltage to the liquid crystal layer. The electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer includes two or more linear portions. The substrate comprising the electrode that applies the voltage to the liquid crystal layer, from among the pair of substrates, includes a floating electrode that overlaps at least two of the two or more linear portions via an insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 8582064
    Abstract: Disclosed is an MVA type liquid crystal display device (LCD 100A) forming four domains in which liquid crystal molecules fall in different directions that are about 90° apart. The MVA type liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, which pixels are horizontally long pixels having longer sides extending in the row direction. Each pixel includes two first electrodes (21a and 21b) arranged side by side along the row direction. Preferably, at least one of the two first electrodes (21a and 21b) has a first corner section including a first edge that is parallel to the row direction and a second edge that is parallel to the column direction, and the first substrate further includes an electrode layer (16c) overlapping at least a portion of the first edge or the second edge of the first corner section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130222747
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display panel capable of suppressing display unevenness caused by the capacitance change due to misalignment when four primary colors are used. The display panel of the present invention includes: signal lines; pixel electrodes; and a common electrode. In the display panel, a single pixel is constituted by picture elements of four or more colors. Each of the pixel electrodes is connected to each one of the signal lines. The pixel electrodes, which are included in the single pixel, are arranged in a squared shape, and include a pixel electrode having larger area and a pixel electrode having smaller area. Both of a signal line connected to the pixel electrode having the larger area and a signal line connected to the pixel electrode having the smaller area overlap with the pixel electrode having the larger area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Hironobu Sawada, Junichi Morinaga, Katsushige Asada, Ryohki Itoh
  • Publication number: 20130222746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display panel which can prevents roughness of the displayed image and reduction in the contrast ratio accompanying a use of four or more color filters of different colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Yuhko Hisada, Junichi Morinaga, Hironobu Sawada, Katsushige Asada
  • Patent number: 8411239
    Abstract: An array substrate of the present invention includes: an insulating substrate; a plurality of scanning lines on the insulating substrate; a plurality of data lines each disposed so as to intersect the plurality of scanning lines on the insulating substrate; picture element electrodes each formed in a substantially rectangular shape, the picture element electrodes each being connected, via a switching element, to a corresponding scanning line and a corresponding data line, the picture element electrodes each having a long side disposed along a direction in which the plurality of scanning lines are extended and a short side disposed along a direction in which the plurality of data lines are extended, the picture element electrodes each having cut sections formed by cutting two corners of each of the picture element electrodes, the cut sections being formed so as to serve as alignment dividing means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiro Yoshida, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh
  • Patent number: 8400597
    Abstract: Each of picture elements (14) has a plurality of alignment regions (R1, R2, R3, and R4), in each of which liquid crystal molecules contained in a liquid crystal layer are aligned in a direction that is different from those in the others of the plurality of alignment regions. Each of a plurality of scanning signal lines (32) and a border region (R11 and R12) between corresponding adjacent ones of the plurality of alignment regions (R1, R2, R3, and R4) at least partially overlap each other when viewed from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junichi Morinaga, Katsushige Asada, Masahiro Yoshida, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Katsuhiro Mikumo, Kuniko Maeno, Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi, Tatsuji Saitoh, Isao Ogasawara, Kazunori Tanimoto, Katsuhiro Okada, Toshiaki Fujihara, Masakatsu Tominaga
  • Patent number: 8390606
    Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of display interconnects (3) provided so as to extend parallel to each other; a drive circuit (44aa) provided at one ends of the display interconnects (3), and connected to the display interconnects (3); a first interconnect (Wa) provided so as to cross the other ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state; and a second interconnect (Wb) provided so as to cross the one ends of the display interconnects (3) in an insulating state, and so as to be connected to the first interconnect (Wa). When any of the display interconnects (3) is disconnected, a display signal from the drive circuit (44aa) is supplied to the other side of the disconnected display interconnect (3) sequentially through the second interconnect (Wb) and the first interconnect (Wa) in this order via an amplifier circuit (A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Isao Ogasawara, Takashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20130033469
    Abstract: Picture element electrodes (7) are electrically connected with drain electrodes (18D) of respective transistor elements (18). The picture element electrodes (7) and data signal lines (SLn, SLn+1, . . . ) are provided above scanning signal lines (GLn, GLn+1, . . . ). The picture element electrodes (7) overlap scanning signal lines (GLn, GLn+1, . . . ) when viewed from above. Notch parts 7a and 7b are provided in each picture element electrode (7) so as to overlap each of the scanning signal lines (GLn, GLn+1, . . . ). Shield electrodes (4a, 4b) are formed in the same layer as the data signal lines (SLn, SLn+1, . . . ). Each of the scanning signal lines (GLn, GLn+1, . . . ) at least partially overlaps the shield electrodes (4a, 4b) in the notch parts (7a, 7b), when viewed from above. This provides the liquid crystal display panel having wide viewing angle characteristic and carrying out high quality display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Yuhko Hisada, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Publication number: 20130021566
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display device in which, even when a columnar spacer is misaligned, the columnar spacer can be light-shielded without reduction of an aperture ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Masaharu Akitomo, Ryohki Itoh
  • Publication number: 20120314170
    Abstract: When viewed from the top of the liquid crystal display panel, a projecting section (4a) of a picture element electrode (4) is formed so as to at least partially match a contact hole (17). It is therefore possible to provide the liquid crystal display panel which achieves a high quality display and has a high aperture ratio and high transmittance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Takaharu Yamada, Satoshi Horiuchi, Ryohki Itoh
  • Publication number: 20120262640
    Abstract: Disclosed is an MVA type liquid crystal display device (LCD 100A) forming four domains in which liquid crystal molecules fall in different directions that are about 90° apart. The MVA type liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, which pixels are horizontally long pixels having longer sides extending in the row direction. Each pixel includes two first electrodes (21a and 21b) arranged side by side along the row direction. Preferably, at least one of the two first electrodes (21a and 21b) has a first corner section including a first edge that is parallel to the row direction and a second edge that is parallel to the column direction, and the first substrate further includes an electrode layer (16c) overlapping at least a portion of the first edge or the second edge of the first corner section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Masahiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8269936
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate (10) included in a liquid crystal display device of the present invention is arranged such that (i) source bus lines (12) (signal wires) are disposed so that each of the source bus lines (i) partially overlaps its corresponding pixel electrodes (14) adjacent to each other along a direction in which gate bus lines (11) (scanning wires) extend and (ii) leads from a border between the pixel electrodes (14) toward a central part of each of the pixel electrodes (14), and in the meantime, the source bus lines (12) are disposed so that at least part of overlap between each of the source bus lines (12) and the pixel electrodes (14) overlaps ribs (26) (orientation-changing sections) that change orientation of liquid crystal molecules contained in a liquid crystal layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 8217872
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including an active matrix substrate with improved characteristics and providing high-contrast between black and white displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi, Takaharu Yamada