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).

  • Patent number: 7927718
    Abstract: A novel compound for an organic EL device is provided which has a structure represented by the general formula (1):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Takao Takiguchi, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 7923129
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device including: a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode; and at least one layer formed of an organic compound interposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the at least one layer formed of the organic compound layer contains at least one kind of the carbazole derivative represented by the following general formula (I). The organic light emitting device has an optical output with extremely high efficiency and a high luminance and has an extremely high durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Jun Kamatani
  • Patent number: 7914907
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL device utilizing phosphorescence which can be driven at a low voltage, which realizes high luminance and high efficiency, and which has a long lifetime. The organic EL device of the present invention includes an organic light-emitting layer composed of at least a host material and a dopant, wherein the dopant is a phosphorescent compound containing a halogen atom, and the host material is a linear aromatic compound having no aromatic substituent at a side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Iwawaki, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Jun Kamatani, Kengo Kishino, Minako Nakasu, Ryota Ooishi
  • Patent number: 7910227
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. As the first dopant, there is employed a phosphorescent dopant. The amount of the second dopant is greater than the amount of the first dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20110049479
    Abstract: Provided are a novel benzo[a]fluoranthene compound and an organic light emitting device having extremely good light emitting efficiency, extremely good luminance, and durability. The benzo[a]fluoranthene compound is represented by the following general formula (I): wherein: at least one of R11 to R22 represents Rm represented by the following general formula (i): Rm=—X1—Ar1??(i) wherein X1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group, or a substituted or unsubstituted, divalent monocyclic heterocyclic group, and Ar1 represents one of the following groups (a) and (b): (a) a substituted or unsubstituted fused polycyclic group, and (b) a composite substituent formed by combining two or more of a benzene ring, a monocyclic heterocyclic ring, and a fused polycyclic ring, the composite substituent being permitted to have a substituent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu, Takayuki Horiuchi, Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 7875366
    Abstract: The present invention provides a luminescent device using a luminescent material which has high luminescence efficiency and high stability, and is available at a low cost. The luminescent device is characterized in that as a luminescent material is used a binuclear copper coordination compound having a partial structure represented by the general formula (1): Cu-A-Cu, wherein Cu is a copper ion and A is a bidentate ligand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akira Tsuboyama, Jun Kamatani, Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi
  • Publication number: 20100237328
    Abstract: There is provided a benzo[a]fluoranthene compound represented by the formula (I): wherein: at least one R11 to R22 represents Rm represented by the formula (i): Rm=—Ar1—X1??(i) wherein: Ar1 represents any one of the following groups (i-a) to (i-c): (i-a) a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene group, (i-b) a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic heterocyclic group, and (i-c) a composite substituent formed of two substituents selected from substituents corresponding to the groups (i-a) and (i-b); and X1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 2 or more carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted alkenyl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkynyl group; and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rm each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rm may be identical to or different from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Horiuchi, Naoki Yamada, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu, Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 7799442
    Abstract: A full-color organic electroluminescent panel has red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color pixels that independently emit light. The organic electroluminescent panel includes a hole-injecting layer common to the red (R), green (G), and blue (B) color pixels and a plurality of hole-transporting layers. The hole-transporting layer in at least one of the red (R), green (G), or blue (B) color pixels differs from a corresponding hole-transporting layer in the remaining pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Iwawaki, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa
  • Patent number: 7794855
    Abstract: A high-performance organic light-emitting element and a novel organic compound realizing the above element are provided. A fluoranthene compound having a specific structure and an organic light-emitting element using the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Iwawaki, Chika Negishi, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Akihiro Senoo, Masashi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 7790299
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same central metal, and the second dopant transmitting energy to the first dopant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20100219407
    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: November 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Masashi Hashimoto, Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20100176716
    Abstract: A novel mono(benzo[k]fluoranthene) compound having a molecular structure containing at least one condensed ring aromatic group which is tricyclic or more at any of 7- to 9-positions of benzo[k]fluoranthene. Also an organic light emitting device including at least a pair of electrodes formed of an anode and a cathode, and a layer formed of an organic compound, the layer being interposed between the pair of electrodes, in which the layer formed of an organic compound contains a compound represented by the following structural formula. An organic light emitting device in which the layer is a light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2007
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto, Keiji Okinaka, Chika Negishi, Akihito Saitoh, Takao Takiguchi
  • Patent number: 7736758
    Abstract: A light emitting device having an anode and a cathode provided on a substrate, and an organic light emitting layer between the anode and the cathode, where the organic light emitting layer includes a light emitting material and first and second dopants for improving the dispersability thereof. The first and second dopants are metal organic complex compounds having the same ligand skeletal structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Furugori, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Seishi Miura, Takashi Moriyama, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Hironobu Iwawaki
  • Publication number: 20100127618
    Abstract: There is provided an organic light-emitting device having an optical output with a high efficiency, a high luminance, and a long life.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroki Ohrui, Akihito Saitoh, Chika Negishi, Hironobu Iwawaki, Masanori Muratsubaki, Shinjiro Okada
  • Patent number: 7704609
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following general formula (1). R3—(X)x-(A)a-(Y)y—(B)b—(Z)z—R12??(1) (A, B, X, Y, and Z represent the following general formulae, and CH on a phenylene ring of each of X, Y, and Z may be replaced with an N atom. a, b, x, y, and z each independently represent an integer of 0 to 5, and a?1, y?1, and a+b?2. (R1 to R14 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, or a linear or branched alkyl group.)). The compound can be suitably used as a compound for an organic EL device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Igawa, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Jun Kamatani, Masashi Hashimoto, Hironobu Iwawaki, Kengo Kishino, Minako Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 7691493
    Abstract: A main chain-type or side chain-type polymeric compound having a structure wherein at least one metal complex segment having a plurality ligands is introduced into a main chain or a side chain is provided. In the case where the polymeric compound is the main chain-type polymeric compound, the metal complex segment has at least one ligand constituting a polymer main chain of the polymeric compound and having a carbon atom and oxygen atom bonded to a metal atom. On the other hand, in the case where the polymeric compound is the side chain-type polymeric compound, a polymer main chain thereof has a conjugated structure, preferably a conjugated double bond. A ligand for the polymeric compound includes a chain or cyclic ligand, of which a bidentate ligand having an organic cyclic structure is preferred, and the ligand has at least one carbon atom or oxygen atom and is bonded to a center metal atom, preferably iridium, via the carbon atom or oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada, Akira Tsuboyama, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa
  • Patent number: 7687154
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light-emitting device which can be driven at a low voltage and has high luminance, high efficiency, and has a long lifetime even as an organic EL device using phosphorescence. The light-emitting device of the present invention is a light-emitting device including an anode, a cathode, and an organic light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic light-emitting layer is composed of a host material and one or more kinds of dopants, a difference in electron affinity between the host material and at least one kind of the dopants is 0.3 eV or less, and a difference in ionization potential between the host material and the at least one kind of the dopants is 0.8 eV or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hironobu Iwawaki, Shinjiro Okada, Takao Takiguchi, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Manabu Furugori, Kengo Kishino, Minako Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 7687155
    Abstract: A metal coordination compound having the following structure: wherein M? is Ir or Rh, m? is 2, and are identical to each other and are represented by a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl isoquinoline ligand. A luminescence device and a display apparatus using this metal coordination compound are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    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: 20100019661
    Abstract: There is provided a benzo[a]fluoranthene compound represented by the following general formula (I): wherein at least one of R14, R15, R16, R20, and R21 represents Rn represented by the following general formula (i), and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rn each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, and R11 to R22 none of which is represented by Rn may be identical to or different from one another; wherein R23, R24, R25, R26, and R27 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, and R23, R24, R25, R26, and R27 may be identical to or different from one another, provided that, in at least one pair of adjacent substituents out of R23, R24, R25, and R26, the substituents are bonded to each other to form a ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki Yamada, Satoshi Igawa, Masashi Hashimoto, Minako Nakasu, Takayuki Horiuchi, Jun Kamatani, Shinjiro Okada
  • Publication number: 20090302758
    Abstract: To provide an organic light emitting device having high efficiency and high luminance by making a contrivance to suppress the leakage of an electron or of an exciton, an organic light emitting device of the present invention includes two hole transporting layers having tertiary amine compounds different from each other in structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihito Saitoh, Keiji Okinaka, Satoshi Igawa, Jun Kamatani, Naoki Yamada, Masashi Hashimoto, Masanori Muratsubaki, Takao Takiguchi, Akihiro Senoo, Shinjiro Okada, Minako Nakasu