Patents by Inventor Ryutaro Oke

Ryutaro Oke 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: 7557786
    Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates, a drain signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the drain signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode connected to the counter voltage line, a video signal driver circuit formed on the one substrate and connected to the drain signal line, and a first interconnection layer disposed between the pixel and the video signal driver circuit. At least one of the capacitance line and the counter voltage line is connected to the first interconnection layer between the video signal driver circuit and the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Takahiro Ochiai, Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Norio Mamba
  • Publication number: 20090135362
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, and a plurality of pixel regions defined by gate signal lines and drain signal lines. A counter electrode which is planar with a substantially rectangular shape is formed on each pixel region, with a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits in overlapping relationship with the counter electrode. A counter voltage signal line is formed in parallel with the gate signal lines and connected with the counter electrode, a first contact hole for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, a connection line and second and third contact holes are provided. The counter electrode is arranged so as to not overlap the first contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Inventors: Kikuo ONO, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20090102766
    Abstract: The present invention prevents a TFT liquid crystal display device from deteriorating its image quality due to the insufficiency of voltage written through TFTs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Ryutaro OKE, Masafumi Hirata, Shisei Katou, Chiharu Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20090102826
    Abstract: A display device having a display element is configured such that the extending directions of electrodes are made different from each other among upper, lower, left and right pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Masaki Tsubokura, Masashi Baba, Yasuhiko Yamagishi, Masahiro Tanaka, Yuuichi Takenaka, Shinji Yasukawa, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20090066687
    Abstract: (Object) To provide a liquid crystal display device which simultaneously uses a method for simultaneously driving two screens and a method for driving scan-back light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Masashi Baba, Yuya Sato
  • Publication number: 20090040409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a foamed resin laminate sound insulation board capable of exhibiting sound proofing performance, which is free from restrictions of shape, applicable place and weight, thinned as the whole laminated plate to enhance plastic workability such as press work, and provided with sufficient vibration damping performance in a final using state after heating foaming process. This foamed resin laminate sound insulation board 1 is a laminated plate comprising at least an unfoamed foamable resin 3a to be foamed at a foaming temperature by heating and a hard plate 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke
  • Patent number: 7486345
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate. A planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits is formed in overlapping relation with the counter electrode. A first contact hole is provided for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, and a connection line is provided for connecting the counter electrode of one pixel region and the counter electrode of an adjacent next pixel region. The counter electrode has a notch in the position of the first contact hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20080303770
    Abstract: A counter voltage supply circuit has an inverting amplifier that inversely amplified a voltage detected from a specified part of a counter electrode of a liquid crystal display panel and supplies the amplified voltage to a counter voltage supply end of the counter electrode. The inverting amplifier includes an operational amplifier having a feedback resistor connected between an inverting input terminal and an output terminal. The feedback resistor includes a first resistor, and n resistors each of which is connected parallel to the first resistor via a switching element. As the n switching elements are selectively turned on and off by a switching element control circuit in accordance with a scanning position, the resistance value of the feedback resistor is varied and the gain of the operational amplifier is changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Yoshihiro Imajo
  • Publication number: 20080284708
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device in which each one pixel has two switching elements and two pixel electrodes, a heat value of a drive circuit can be suppressed to a low level thus preventing the deterioration of image quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Kikuo Ono
  • Publication number: 20080284700
    Abstract: To suppress degradation of image quality caused by using an AC drive method so as to display a high-quality image. If a drive state of each of subpixels at a time when a gray-scale voltage higher than a counter voltage applied to a counter electrode is applied to a pixel electrode is defined as a positive drive state and if the drive state of each subpixel at a time when a gray-scale voltage lower than a counter voltage applied to the counter electrode is applied to the pixel electrode is defined as a negative drive state, an image line drive circuit changes the drive state of each subpixel from the positive drive state to the negative drive state or from the negative drive state to the positive drive state every two frames, as well as inverts a phase of the drive state of each subpixel every N (N?4) frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Ryutaro Oke, Ikuko Mori
  • Publication number: 20080273135
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Publication number: 20080266506
    Abstract: The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which can enhance the accuracy in feeding back a common potential applied to common voltage supply lines. A display panel includes a common bus line electrically connected to common electrodes and formed annularly on a periphery of the display region, a common sensing line for feeding back a voltage of the common bus line to a control printed circuit board, a scanning-signal-drive-circuit-use power source line for supplying electricity for driving a scanning signal drive circuit, and a common-voltage-supply-use line for supplying a common voltage to the common bus line. The common-voltage-supply-use line, the common sensing line and the scanning-signal-drive-circuit-use power source line are formed along one side of the display panel to which at least the scanning signal drive circuit is connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Yuuichi TAKENAKA, Ryutaro Oke, Masafumi Hirata
  • Publication number: 20080259265
    Abstract: Below a transparent pixel electrode, an opaque pixel electrode is arranged while sandwiching an insulation film between the transparent pixel electrode and the opaque pixel electrode. A common electrode is arranged below the opaque pixel electrode thus forming a holding capacitance between the common electrode and an opaque metal electrode. In case when the pixel is divided into four or more portions, an interval between the pixel electrode and the common electrode is set to an unequal pitch size or an unequal electrode width within one pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Takahiro Ochiai, Hirotaka Imayama
  • Patent number: 7440066
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode to which a signal is supplied through a first switching element and a second electrode to which a signal is supplied through a second switching element in each pixel region on a substrate, wherein liquid crystal is driven in response to a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode. In such a constitution, the first electrode is formed as one electrode of a first holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the first electrode and a signal line and, at the same time, the second electrode is formed as one electrode of a second holding capacitance which is constituted by sandwiching an insulation film between the second electrode and a signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke
  • Publication number: 20080246707
    Abstract: A display device includes a pair of substrates, a drain signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrates, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the drain signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, and a counter electrode connected to the counter voltage line, a video signal driver circuit formed on the one substrate and connected to the drain signal line, and a first interconnection layer disposed between the pixel and the video signal driver circuit. At least one of the capacitance line and the counter voltage line is connected to the first interconnection layer between the video signal driver circuit and the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Tomohiko SATO, Takahiro Ochiai, Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Norio Mamba
  • Patent number: 7411647
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device with a planar counter electrode formed on the first substrate in each pixel region, a pixel electrode formed on the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, the pixel electrode formed of a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode in the pixel region, the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode have a large number of slits which are arranged in parallel in the electrodes and the extending direction of the slits is different from both extending directions of the gate lines and the drain lines, and the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes are arranged to be parallel to each other, and a portion between the neighboring sides of the first and the second pixel electrodes is positioned above the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7403255
    Abstract: Below a transparent pixel electrode, an opaque pixel electrode is arranged while sandwiching an insulation film between the transparent pixel electrode and the opaque pixel electrode. A common electrode is arranged below the opaque pixel electrode thus forming a holding capacitance between the common electrode and an opaque metal electrode. In case when the pixel is divided into four or more portions, an interval between the pixel electrode and the common electrode is set to an unequal pitch size or an unequal electrode width within one pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Takahiro Ochiai, Hirotaka Imayama
  • Publication number: 20080170194
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer therebetween, a plurality of gate signal lines and a plurality of drain signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate. A planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a pixel electrode having a plurality of slits is formed in overlapping relation with the counter electrode. A first contact hole is provided for connecting the pixel electrode and a source electrode, and a connection line is provided for connecting the counter electrode of one pixel region and the counter electrode of an adjacent next pixel region. The counter electrode has a notch in the position of the first contact hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Kikuo ONO, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita
  • Patent number: 7391397
    Abstract: A display device such as liquid crystal display device which restrains the entrance of static electricity into a scanning signal driver circuit or a video signal driver circuit includes a pair of substrates, a signal line, a capacitance line and a counter voltage line formed on one substrate of the pair of substrate, a pixel including a thin film transistor connected to the signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor and a counter electrode connected to the counter voltage line, a driver circuit formed on the one substrate and connected to the signal line and an interconnection layer disposed between the pixel and the driver circuit. At least one of the capacitance line and the counter voltage line is connected to the interconnection layer between the driver circuit and the pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiko Sato, Takahiro Ochiai, Kikuo Ono, Ryutaro Oke, Norio Mamba
  • Patent number: 7352425
    Abstract: In a liquid crystal display device including a pair of substrates which face each other with a liquid crystal layer disposed therebetween, a plurality of pixel regions which are formed on one substrate, a planar counter electrode which is formed on each pixel region, and a comb-shaped or slit-shaped pixel electrode which is formed on each pixel region, the comb-shaped or slit-shaped pixel electrode being formed over the counter electrode by way of an insulation layer, a notch or a slit is formed in the counter electrode such that a wiring layer made of an opaque material which transmits a potential to the pixel electrode from a thin film transistor defines a region where the wiring layer is not overlapped relative to the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kikuo Ono, Ikuko Mori, Ryutaro Oke, Hiroyuki Yarita