Patents by Inventor Shunpei Yamazaki

Shunpei Yamazaki 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: 20250098523
    Abstract: A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer including a guest, an n-type host and a p-type host between a pair of electrodes, where the difference between the energy difference between a triplet excited state and a ground state of the n-type host (or p-type host) and the energy difference between a triplet excited state and a ground state of the guest is 0.15 eV or more. Alternatively, in such a light-emitting element, the LUMO level of the n-type host is higher than the LUMO level of the guest by 0.1 eV or more, or the HOMO level of the p-type host is lower than the HOMO level of the guest by 0.1 eV or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Satoshi SEO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Satoko SHITAGAKI, Hideko INOUE, Hiroshi KADOMA, Harue OSAKA, Kunihiko SUZUKI, Yasuhiko TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20250098317
    Abstract: A display device that is suitable for increasing its size is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Kei TAKAHASHI, Yoshiyuki KUROKAWA
  • Publication number: 20250098316
    Abstract: A more convenient and highly reliable semiconductor device which has a transistor including an oxide semiconductor with higher impact resistance used for a variety of applications is provided. A semiconductor device has a bottom-gate transistor including a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating layer, and an oxide semiconductor layer over a substrate, an insulating layer over the transistor, and a conductive layer over the insulating layer. The insulating layer covers the oxide semiconductor layer and is in contact with the gate insulating layer. In a channel width direction of the oxide semiconductor layer, end portions of the gate insulating layer and the insulating layer are aligned with each other over the gate electrode layer, and the conductive layer covers a channel formation region of the oxide semiconductor layer and the end portions of the gate insulating layer and the insulating layer and is in contact with the gate electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventor: Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250096306
    Abstract: To provide a novel structure of a separator in a secondary battery. A nonaquesous secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte solution, a first separator, and a second separator. The first separator and the second separator are provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The first separator is provided with a first pore, the second separator is provided with a second pore, and the size of the first pore is different from the size of the second pore. Furthermore, the proportion of the volume of the first pores in the first separator is different from the proportion of the volume of the second pores in the second separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventor: Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 12256597
    Abstract: A novel functional panel that is highly convenient, useful, or reliable is provided. The functional panel includes a base material and a pair of pixels, and the base material covers the pair of pixels and has a light-transmitting property. The pair of pixels includes one pixel and another pixel, and the one pixel includes a light-emitting device and a first microlens. The light-emitting device emits light toward the base material, and the first microlens is interposed between the base material and the light emission and converges light. The first microlens includes a first surface and a second surface; the second surface is closer to the light-emitting device than the first surface is; and the second surface has a smaller radius of curvature than the first surface. The other pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device and a second microlens. The second microlens is interposed between the base material and the photoelectric conversion and converges external light incident from the base material side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Daiki Nakamura, Ryo Hatsumi, Rai Sato, Shingo Eguchi, Koji Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 12252775
    Abstract: There have been cases where transistors formed using oxide semiconductors are inferior in reliability to transistors formed using amorphous silicon. Thus, in the present invention, a semiconductor device including a highly reliable transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor is manufactured. An oxide semiconductor film is deposited by a sputtering method, using a sputtering target including an oxide semiconductor having crystallinity, and in which the direction of the c-axis of a crystal is parallel to a normal vector of the top surface of the oxide semiconductor. The target is formed by mixing raw materials so that its composition ratio can obtain a crystal structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Tetsunori Maruyama, Yuki Imoto, Hitomi Sato, Masahiro Watanabe, Mitsuo Mashiyama, Kenichi Okazaki, Motoki Nakashima, Takashi Shimazu
  • Publication number: 20250089559
    Abstract: A light-emitting device with high resolution and high efficiency is provided. A first electrode, a second electrode, a first EL layer, an intermediate layer, and a second EL layer are provided, the first electrode is positioned to face the second electrode with the intermediate layer therebetween, the first EL layer is positioned between the first electrode and the intermediate layer, the second EL layer is positioned between the intermediate layer and the second electrode, and the intermediate layer contains an organic compound represented by General Formula (G1) below.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Toshiki SASAKI, Takeyoshi WATABE, Hiromitsu KIDO, Takuya ISHIMOTO, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Masatoshi TAKABATAKE
  • Publication number: 20250088769
    Abstract: An imaging device that has an image processing function and is capable of operating at high speed is provided. The imaging device has an additional function such as image processing, image data obtained by an imaging operation is binarized in a pixel unit, and a product-sum operation is performed using the binarized data. A memory circuit is provided in the pixel unit and retains a weight coefficient used for the product-sum operation. Thus, an arithmetic operation can be performed without the weight coefficient read from the outside every time, whereby power consumption can be reduced. Furthermore, a pixel circuit, a memory circuit, and the like and a product-sum operation circuit and the like are stacked, so that the lengths of wirings between the circuits can be reduced, and high-speed operation with low power consumption can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shunsuke SATO, Seiichi YONEDA, Yusuke NEGORO, Takeya HIROSE, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250087145
    Abstract: Provided is a display system with high display quality and high resolution. The display system includes a first layer and a display portion. The display portion is positioned in a region overlapping with the first layer. The first layer includes a semiconductor substrate containing silicon as a material, and a plurality of first transistors and a plurality of second transistors whose channel formation regions contain silicon are formed over the semiconductor substrate. The first layer includes a first circuit and a second circuit; the first circuit includes a driver circuit for driving the display portion; and the second circuit includes a memory device, a GPU, and an EL correction circuit. The display portion includes a pixel, and the pixel includes a light-emitting device containing organic EL and is electrically connected to the driver circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Tatsuya ONUKI, Hajime KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20250085844
    Abstract: A data processing device with low power consumption is provided. The data processing device includes a flexible position input portion for sensing proximity or a touch of an object such as a user's palm and finger. The flexible position input portion overlaps with a display portion and includes a first region, a second region facing the first region, and a third region between the first region and the second region. In the case where part of the first region or the second region is held by a user for a certain period, supply of image signals to the part is selectively stopped. Alternatively, a sensing in the part is selectively stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Hajime KIMURA, Hideaki KUWABARA, Koji DAIRIKI
  • Publication number: 20250089443
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with a local maximum peak on the longest wavelength side of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Satoshi SEO, Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Takahiro ISHISONE
  • Publication number: 20250087146
    Abstract: A correction method of a display apparatus is provided. A method for evaluating display quality of a display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a correction circuit, and a memory. First, first imaging data including all pixels in the display apparatus is acquired in a state where an image with a first grayscale is displayed on the display apparatus. Then, second imaging data including all the pixels in the display apparatus is acquired in a state where an image with a second grayscale is displayed on the display apparatus. Next, correction data is generated based on the first imaging data and the second imaging data. After that, the correction data is output to the memory of the display apparatus. The correction circuit has a function of correcting image data based on the correction data stored in the memory to generate corrected image data and outputting the corrected image data to the display panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Tatsuya ONUKI, Shunsuke SATO, Yoshiyuki KUROKAWA, Yosuke TSUKAMOTO, Shigeru ONOYA
  • Patent number: 12250819
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a large storage capacity per unit area is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Tatsuya Onuki, Satoru Okamoto
  • Patent number: 12249653
    Abstract: An object is to stabilize electric characteristics of a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor to increase reliability. The semiconductor device includes an insulating film; a first metal oxide film on and in contact with the insulating film; an oxide semiconductor film partly in contact with the first metal oxide film; source and drain electrodes electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor film; a second metal oxide film partly in contact with the oxide semiconductor film; a gate insulating film on and in contact with the second metal oxide film; and a gate electrode over the gate insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 12250855
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel portion in which a pixel is arranged in a matrix, the pixel including an inverted staggered thin film transistor having a combination of at least two kinds of oxide semiconductor layers with different amounts of oxygen and having a channel protective layer over a semiconductor layer to be a channel formation region overlapping a gate electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer electrically connected to the inverted staggered thin film transistor. In the periphery of the pixel portion in this display device, a pad portion including a conductive layer made of the same material as the pixel electrode layer is provided. In addition, the conductive layer is electrically connected to a common electrode layer formed on a counter substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kengo Akimoto, Shigeki Komori, Hideki Uochi, Rihito Wada, Yoko Chiba
  • Publication number: 20250076932
    Abstract: A display device with low power consumption is provided. Furthermore, a display device in which an image is displayed in a region that can be used in a folded state is provided. The conceived display device includes a display portion that can be opened and folded, a sensing portion that senses a folded state of the display portion, and an image processing portion that generates, when the display portion is in the folded state, an image in which a black image is displayed in part of the display portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yoshiharu HIRAKATA, Hiroyuki MIYAKE, Seiko INOUE, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250081537
    Abstract: A semiconductor device in which a variation of transistor characteristics is small is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor. The transistor includes a first insulator, a first oxide over the first insulator, a first conductor, a second conductor, and a second oxide, which is positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, over the first oxide, a second insulator over the second oxide, and a third conductor over the second insulator. A top surface of the first oxide in a region overlapping with the third conductor is at a lower position than a position of a top surface of the first oxide in a region overlapping with the first conductor. The first oxide in the region overlapping with the third conductor has a curved surface between a side surface and the top surface of the first oxide, and the curvature radius of the curved surface is greater than or equal to 1 nm and less than or equal to 15 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Shinya SASAGAWA, Katsuaki TOCHIBAYASHI, Tsutomu MURAKAWA, Erika TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20250076697
    Abstract: A display device including a peripheral circuit portion with high operation stability. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is on a first plane of the first substrate, and a second insulating layer is on a first plane of the second substrate. An area of the first plane of the first substrate is the same as an area of the first plane of the second substrate. The first plane of the first substrate and the first plane of the second substrate face each other. A bonding layer is between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protection film is in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the bonding layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Yoshiharu Hirakata, Tetsuji ISHITANI, Daisuke KUBOTA, Ryo HATSUMI, Masaru NAKANO, Takashi HAMADA
  • Publication number: 20250081619
    Abstract: A highly flexible display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. A transistor including a light-transmitting semiconductor film, a capacitor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric film between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first insulating film covering the semiconductor film are formed over a flexible substrate. The capacitor includes a region where the first electrode and the dielectric film are in contact with each other, and the first insulating film does not cover the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventor: Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20250081737
    Abstract: A highly reliable display device is provided. The display device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element adjacent to the first light-emitting element, a first insulating layer provided between the first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element, and a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer. The first light-emitting element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the first conductive layer, a first EL layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the second conductive layer, and a common electrode over the first EL layer. The second light-emitting element includes a third conductive layer, a fourth conductive layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the third conductive layer, a second EL layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the fourth conductive layer, and the common electrode over the second EL layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shunpei YAMAZAKI, Ryota HODO, Yasuhiro JINBO, Yasunori SASAMURA, Hiromi SAWAI