Patents by Inventor Satoru Shimoda

Satoru Shimoda 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: 8384629
    Abstract: An offset voltage generating circuit sets an offset voltage through binary search based on a voltage value of the initial voltage, and a voltage controlling circuit generates an output voltage which is a predetermined gradation voltage added with the offset voltage, and applies a voltage based on the output voltage to a control terminal of a drive transistor. A current comparison circuit applies a supply voltage from a power supply to the other end of current path of the drive transistor. The current comparison circuit compares the current value of a reference current corresponding to the gradation voltage with a current value of the current flowing in the current path of the drive transistor at this time. The offset voltage generating circuit acquires a specific offset voltage corresponding to variation of the characteristic of the drive transistor based on a result of comparison performed by the current comparison circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8354285
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting panel including: a light blocking section formed above a substrate, the light blocking section including an opening; a first electrode formed above the opening of the light blocking section; a dividing wall including an opening so that at least a portion of the first electrode is exposed, the opening corresponding to a shape of the opening of the light blocking section; a second electrode formed above the first electrode; and a carrier transport layer composed of at least one layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 8282436
    Abstract: A light emitting device having at least one pixel having a light emitting element includes a substrate, a partition wall formed over the substrate, and a luminous layer of the light emitting element, where the luminous layer is formed in at least one groove partitioned by the partition wall. The partition wall has a plurality of first partition walls and at least one second partition wall. Each of the first partition walls is extending in the first direction and the second partition wall is formed to extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and connect end portions of the plurality of first partition walls. A lyophobic degree of the second partition wall is lower than that of a center region between both ends of each of the first partition walls in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Kidu, Satoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 8120601
    Abstract: A display drive apparatus for driving a display pixel including a light-emitting element and a drive element in which one end of a current path is connected to the light-emitting element. The display drive apparatus has a specific value detection section detecting a difference value between a measured voltage detected at one end of a data line when a reference current is applied via the data line and a standard voltage corresponding to the reference current so as to obtain a specific value corresponding to variation of an element characteristic of the drive element, and a gradation signal correction section generating a corrected gradation signal by correcting a gradation signal according to display data based on the specific value so as to apply the corrected gradation signal from the one end of the data line to the display pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Jun Ogura, Satoru Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20110225799
    Abstract: The apparatus manufactures a light emitting device provided with a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on a substrate. The apparatus comprises: a rotating plate cylinder provided with a flexographic plate for printing ink that forms an organic layer of the light emitting elements on the substrate; an intermediate transfer member that contacts the flexographic plate to transfer the ink; a head unit that supplies the ink to the intermediate transfer member; a storage unit that stores as an ink replenishment pattern a region in which the ink is removed from the intermediate transfer member by the transfer of the ink from the intermediate transfer member to the flexographic plate; and a control unit that supplies the ink from the head unit to the region of the ink replenishment pattern on a surface of the intermediate transfer member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru SHIMODA, Isao Ebisawa
  • Publication number: 20110074762
    Abstract: A light-emitting apparatus includes a light-emitting panel provided with at least one pixel and a data line connected to the pixel, and a drive circuit connected to the light-emitting panel. The pixel includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor, and a switching element. The drive transistor includes a current path having a first end side connected to the light-emitting element and a second end side to be supplied with a power supply voltage. The switching element is provided between the first end side of the current path and the data line. The drive circuit includes a measurement circuit, which connects the data line and light-emitting element through the switching element after no current is set to run through the current path, to acquire an electric characteristic of the light-emitting element through the data line and first switching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SHIRASAKI, Shunji Kashiyama, Satoru Shimoda
  • Publication number: 20110062458
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting panel including: a light blocking section formed above a substrate, the light blocking section including an opening; a first electrode formed above the opening of the light blocking section; a dividing wall including an opening so that at least a portion of the first electrode is exposed, the opening corresponding to a shape of the opening of the light blocking section; a second electrode formed above the first electrode; and a carrier transport layer composed of at least one layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru SHIMODA, Hiroshi Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20110052826
    Abstract: An application device wherein a liquid is applied to an application target region of a substrate disposed on a supporting table by moving a discharge section including a nozzle hole which discharges the liquid in a first direction relative to the supporting table; a displacement amount of the discharge section in a second direction which crosses the first direction is detected while the discharge section moves relative to the supporting table in the first direction; and one of the discharge section and the supporting table is moved in an offset direction which offsets the displacement amount while the discharge section is moved relative to the supporting table in the first direction, so as to control the displacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru SHIMODA
  • Publication number: 20110025189
    Abstract: A light emitting device having at least one pixel having a light emitting element includes a substrate, a partition wall formed over the substrate, and a luminous layer of the light emitting element, where the luminous layer is formed in at least one groove partitioned by the partition wall. The partition wall has a plurality of first partition walls and at least one second partition wall. Each of the first partition walls is extending in the first direction and the second partition wall is formed to extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and connect end portions of the plurality of first partition walls. A lyophobic degree of the second partition wall is lower than that of a center region between both ends of each of the first partition walls in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi KIDU, Satoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7871837
    Abstract: A display panel manufacturing method according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: patterning a plurality of pixel electrodes on a panel to be arrayed in a matrix; forming an interconnection made of a metal between the pixel electrodes; coating a surface of the interconnection with a liquid repellent conductive layer; and forming an organic compound layer by applying an organic compound-containing solution to the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Jun Ogura, Minoru Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20100328297
    Abstract: An offset voltage generating circuit sets an offset voltage through binary search based on a voltage value of the initial voltage, and a voltage controlling circuit generates an output voltage which is a predetermined gradation voltage added with the offset voltage, and applies a voltage based on the output voltage to a control terminal of a drive transistor. A current comparison circuit applies a supply voltage from a power supply to the other end of current path of the drive transistor. The current comparison circuit compares the current value of a reference current corresponding to the gradation voltage with a current value of the current flowing in the current path of the drive transistor at this time. The offset voltage generating circuit acquires a specific offset voltage corresponding to variation of the characteristic of the drive transistor based on a result of comparison performed by the current comparison circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoru SHIMODA
  • Patent number: 7732019
    Abstract: A solution spray apparatus includes a nozzle which sprays a droplet of a solution such as EL solution, a heater is provided on the nozzle to heat the solution in the nozzle to a temperature lower than a boiling point of the solution in the nozzle, so that the droplet of the heated solution is ejected from the spray to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Tomoyuki Shirasaki
  • Publication number: 20100051993
    Abstract: Disclosed is a light emitting apparatus including: a first electrode; at least one carrier transporting layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the carrier transporting layer; a partition wall formed on an upper face side of a substrate the partition wall including an opening to be communicated with the first electrode; and a light emitting protecting layer mediating between the partition wall and the carrier transporting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru SHIMODA, Tomoyuki SHIRASAKI, Takashi KIDU
  • Publication number: 20090239321
    Abstract: A transistor array substrate includes a plurality of driving transistors which are arrayed in a matrix on a substrate. The driving transistor has a gate, a source, a drain, and a gate insulating film inserted between the gate, and the source and drain. A plurality of signal lines are patterned together with the gates of the driving transistors and arrayed to run in a predetermined direction on the substrate. A plurality of supply lines are patterned together with the sources and drains of the driving transistors and arrayed to cross the signal lines via the gate insulating film. The supply line is electrically connected to one of the source and the drain of the driving transistor. A plurality of feed interconnections are formed on the supply lines along the supply lines, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru SHIMODA, Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Jun Ogura, Minoru Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20090207160
    Abstract: A display drive apparatus for driving a display pixel including a light-emitting element and a drive element in which one end of a current path is connected to the light-emitting element. The display drive apparatus has a specific value detection section detecting a difference value between a measured voltage detected at one end of a data line when a reference current is applied via the data line and a standard voltage corresponding to the reference current so as to obtain a specific value corresponding to variation of an element characteristic of the drive element, and a gradation signal correction section generating a corrected gradation signal by correcting a gradation signal according to display data based on the specific value so as to apply the corrected gradation signal from the one end of the data line to the display pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SHIRASAKI, Jun Ogura, Satoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7573068
    Abstract: A transistor array substrate includes a plurality of driving transistors which are arrayed in a matrix on a substrate. The driving transistor has a gate, a source, a drain, and a gate insulating film inserted between the gate, and the source and drain. A plurality of signal lines are patterned together with the gates of the driving transistors and arrayed to run in a predetermined direction on the substrate. A plurality of supply lines are patterned together with the sources and drains of the driving transistors and arrayed to cross the signal lines via the gate insulating film. The supply line is electrically connected to one of the source and the drain of the driving transistor. A plurality of feed interconnections are formed on the supply lines along the supply lines, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2009
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Jun Ogura, Minoru Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20090079676
    Abstract: A display apparatus comprises a display section including a display panel having a plurality of arranged display pixels, a display state of each of the display pixels being changed by an electric field generated between a pair of electrodes arranged to be opposed to each other; a luminous section including a luminous panel having a plurality of luminous pixels arranged correspondingly to each of the plurality of display pixels; and a control section for controlling the display state of one of the display pixels in the display panel by making an arbitrary one of the luminous pixels in the luminous panel emit a light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki SHIRASAKI, Satoru Shimoda
  • Patent number: 7498733
    Abstract: A display panel includes a transistor array substrate which has a plurality of transistors including at least a driving transistor, and a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically connected to the driving transistor of the plurality of transistors. A plurality of light-emitting layers are provided on the pixel electrodes. A counter electrode is provided on the light-emitting layers. Each of a plurality of interconnections is arranged between the pixel electrodes adjacent to each other and electrically connected to the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Manabu Takei, Tomoyuki Shirasaki, Jun Ogura
  • Patent number: 7395976
    Abstract: A solution spray apparatus includes a nozzle which sprays a droplet of a solution such as EL solution, a heater is provided on the nozzle to heat the solution in the nozzle to a temperature lower than a boiling point of the solution in the nozzle, so that the droplet of the heated solution is ejected from the spray to an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2008
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoru Shimoda, Tomoyuki Shirasaki
  • Publication number: 20080118629
    Abstract: A solution spray apparatus includes a nozzle which sprays a droplet of a solution such as EL solution, a heater is provided on the nozzle to heat the solution in the nozzle to a temperature lower than a boiling point of the solution in the nozzle, so that the droplet of the heated solution is ejected from the spray to an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoru SHIMODA, Tomoyuki Shirasaki