Patents by Inventor Shinjiro Okada

Shinjiro Okada 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: 20170114274
    Abstract: An electrochromic composition has an anodic electrochromic compound and a cathodic electrochromic compound, in which the anodic electrochromic compound is represented by General Formula [1] and the cathodic electrochromic compound is represented by General Formula [2] In General Formula 1, A1 to A4 represent substituents, R1 and R2, and R20 and R21 represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. n is an integer of 1 to 5. X represents a thiophene derivative and Y- represents an anion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada, Jun Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9611233
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic compound to be used in an electrochromic device. The organic compound has excellent oxidation-reduction repeating characteristics and shows high transparency in the bleached state without showing light absorption in the visible light region. The organic compound has a structure represented by Formula [1] according to claim 1. In Formula [1], A1 and A2 represent substituents, and at least one of A1 and A2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an optionally substituted aryl group. R1 represents a substituent, X represents an electrochromic portion, and n is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20170092882
    Abstract: Provided is an organic metal complex having a structure represented by the following general formula (1): MLmL?n??(1) where: M represents a metal atom selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Os, and Zn; L and L?, which are different from each other, each represent a bidentate ligand; m represents an integer of 1 to 3 and n represents an integer of 0 to 2, provided that m+n is 3; a partial structure MLm represents a structure represented by the following general formula (2): and a partial structure ML?n represents a structure including a monovalent bidentate ligand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, I, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9554442
    Abstract: Provided is an organic metal complex having a structure represented by the following general formula (1): MLmL?n??(1) where: M represents a metal atom selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Os, and Zn; L and L?, which are different from each other, each represent a bidentate ligand; m represents an integer of 1 to 3 and n represents an integer of 0 to 2, provided that m+n is 3; a partial structure MLm represents a structure represented by the following general formula (2): and a partial structure ML?n represents a structure including a monovalent bidentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20160306251
    Abstract: The present invention provides a driving device for an electrochromic device, the driving device including a controller. An electrochromic device has a characteristic region in which a change in a Duty ratio from a to b brings a change in the light transmittance of the electrochromic device from TA to TB and in which a change in the Duty ratio from b to a brings a change in the light transmittance of the electrochromic device from TC different from TB to TD different from TA, and the a controller controls the electrochromic device such that a Duty ratio employed in the case where the light transmittance of the electrochromic device is decreased to the intended light transmittance T1 is different from a Duty ratio employed in the case where the light transmittance of the electrochromic device is increased to the intended light transmittance T1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventors: Jun YAMAMOTO, Shinjiro OKADA, Kenji YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20160299400
    Abstract: Potential non-uniformity in a surface of an electrode in an electrochromic element is improved during coloring and color erasing. The electrochromic element includes a pair of transparent electrodes and an electrochromic layer placed between the transparent electrodes. Each of the transparent electrodes includes an end portion having an electric supply portion. The electric supply portions face each other. The surface resistivity of each of the transparent electrodes increases with the increase of the distance from a corresponding one of the electric supply portions. The potential of the transparent electrodes is such that the difference between the maximum and minimum potentials in a surface of each transparent electrode is less than or equal to a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyazaki, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20160299401
    Abstract: The present invention provides an electrochromic device including a pair of electrodes and an electrochromic layer disposed between the pair of electrodes and containing different electrochromic materials having the same polarity, wherein in the case where two materials are selected from the different electrochromic materials having the same polarity in descending order of maximum absorbance in a color-display mode of the electrochromic layer and where the diffusion coefficients of the molecules of the two materials are compared with each other in the color-display mode, a smaller diffusion coefficient D2min, a larger diffusion coefficient D2max, and maximum absorbance H2 of the molecules of the electrochromic material having the diffusion coefficient D2max in the color-display mode satisfy Formula (5). 1?D2max/D2min?(1+0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Wataru Kubo, Shinjiro Okada, Kenji Yamada
  • Publication number: 20160152633
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic compound to be used in an electrochromic device. The organic compound has excellent oxidation-reduction repeating characteristics and shows high transparency in the bleached state without showing light absorption in the visible light region. The organic compound has a structure represented by Formula [1] according to claim 1. In Formula [1], A1 and A2 represent substituents, and at least one of A1 and A2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an optionally substituted aryl group. R1 represents a substituent, X represents an electrochromic portion, and n is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9310660
    Abstract: An organic compound represented by Formula [1] showing high transparency in the visible light region is provided. In Formula [1], A1 to A6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, n is an integer of 1 to 4, and the B's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent represented by Formula [2], provided that at least one B represents a substituent represented by Formula [2]. In Formula [2], R2 represents a substituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9284328
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic compound to be used in an electrochromic device. The organic compound has excellent oxidation-reduction repeating characteristics and shows high transparency in the bleached state without showing light absorption in the visible light region. The organic compound has a structure represented by Formula [1] according to Claim 1. In Formula [1], A1 and A2 represent substituents, and at least one of A1 and A2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an optionally substituted aryl group. R1 represents a substituent, X represents an electrochromic portion, and n is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20160041447
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for driving an electrochromic element having an excellent operating performance, which is capable of controlling, during a transitional state in which a light transmittance changes, a speed and period of the transitional state, the apparatus for driving an electrochromic element being configured to perform, when an absorbance of an electrochromic element is to be increased from a current absorbance to a target absorbance, before normal drive of driving the electrochromic element at a duty ratio (D1) for maintaining the target absorbance, accelerated drive of driving the electrochromic element at a duty ratio (D2) larger than the duty ratio (D1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Yamamoto, Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20150153624
    Abstract: An organic compound represented by Formula [1] showing high transparency in the visible light region is provided. In Formula [1], A1 to A6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, n is an integer of 1 to 4, and the B's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent represented by Formula [2], provided that at least one B represents a substituent represented by Formula [2]. In Formula [2], R2 represents a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 9001408
    Abstract: There is provided an EC device having stability against redox reaction cycles, high transparency, i.e., the EC device does not absorb light in the visible region in a bleached state, and having excellent response speed. The electrochromic device includes a pair of electrodes and a composition arranged between the pair of electrodes, the composition containing an electrolyte and an organic electrochromic compound, in which the organic electrochromic compound includes an electrochromic portion that exhibits electrochromic properties and an aromatic ring directly bonded to the electrochromic portion, the electrochromic portion forms one conjugated plane, an atom of the aromatic ring and adjacent to an atom bonded to the electrochromic portion has a substituent having a volume equal to or larger than the volume of a methyl group, and a cathodically electrochromic organic compound is further contained in addition to the organic electrochromic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada, Kazuya Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20150076478
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound represented by any one of formulas (1)-(5). An organic luminescence device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer, which contains the metal coordination compound, disposed between the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Patent number: 8982443
    Abstract: Provided is a novel electrochromic compound that is excellent in oxidation-reduction repetition and highly transparent when bleached and does not show optical absorption in the visible light region. The compound is an organic compound represented by General Formula [1] shown in Claim 1. In the General Formula [1], A and A? are each independently selected from hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups, alkoxy groups, and aryl groups, wherein at least one of A and A? is selected from the alkyl groups, the alkoxy groups, and the aryl groups. R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, an amino group, or a silyl group; and n represents 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20150031894
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic compound to be used in an electrochromic device. The organic compound has excellent oxidation-reduction repeating characteristics and shows high transparency in the bleached state without showing light absorption in the visible light region. The organic compound has a structure represented by Formula [1] according to Claim 1. In Formula [1], A1 and A2 represent substituents, and at least one of A1 and A2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, or an optionally substituted aryl group. R1 represents a substituent, X represents an electrochromic portion, and n is an integer of 1 to 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8920943
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound represented by the formula: An organic luminescence device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic layer, which contains the metal coordination compound, disposed between the anode and the cathode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Koji Noguchi, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Manabu Furugori
  • Publication number: 20140362430
    Abstract: A driver for an electrochromic element is configured to adjust the transmittance of a solution-type electrochromic element to allow the element to display a tone. The element has a pair of electrodes and at least one organic electrochromic material mixed between the electrodes. The driver has an adjusting controller configured to adjust the transmittance of the element. The adjusting controller has controller A and controller B. Controller A is configured to saturate a change in the transmittance of the element to an initial state by applying the voltage which resets the element to the initial state. Controller B is configured to control the tone of the element by applying the voltage which adjusts the transmittance of the element following controller A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Jun Yamamoto, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 8808875
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-performance organic EL device and a novel compound used for the device. The novel compound of the present invention is a fluoranthene compound having the following general formula (2): The organic EL device of the present invention is an organic EL device comprising: an anode; a cathode; and an organic compound layer interposed between the anode and the cathode, wherein the organic compound layer has the fluoranthene compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Satoshi Igawa, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8754241
    Abstract: An organic compound represented by the following general formula [1] is provided. In the general formula [1], A1 to A4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and an aryl group. However, at least one of A1 to A4 represents the alkyl group, the alkoxy group, or the aryl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Yamada, Shinjiro Okada