Patents by Inventor Takahiro Ushikubo

Takahiro Ushikubo 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: 10461134
    Abstract: A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Takahiro Ushikubo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10424755
    Abstract: A light-emitting element having high external quantum efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element having a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting layer is provided between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer is a stack of a first light-emitting layer, which contains at least a first phosphorescent compound, a first organic compound having an electron-transport property, and a second organic compound having a hole-transport property and is provided on the anode side, and a second light-emitting layer, which contains at least a second phosphorescent compound and the first organic compound having an electron-transport property. A combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Seo, Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ushikubo, Toshiki Sasaki, Shogo Uesaka
  • Patent number: 10236465
    Abstract: At the time of removing a flexible organic electroluminescence display device from a support substrate, delamination is prevented from occurring at a laminate structure of an OLED. The organic electroluminescence display device includes a flexible base material, a plurality of organic electroluminescence elements, each comprising a pixel electrode, a reflective layer that is disposed between the base material and the pixel electrode and reflects light, a semitransparent counter electrode that is disposed on a light-emitting surface side with respect to the pixel electrode, and an organic electroluminescence function layer that is a lamination including an organic light-emitting layer and disposed between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, a transparent electrode laminated on the counter electrode, an organic film laminated on the transparent electrode 80, and a gap 84 generated at a part of an interface between the transparent electrode 80 and the organic film 82.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ushikubo
  • Publication number: 20190067586
    Abstract: A composite material which includes an organic compound and an inorganic compound and has a high carrier-transport property is provided. A composite material having a good property of carrier injection into an organic compound is provided. A composite material in which light absorption due to charge-transfer interaction is unlikely to occur is provided. A composite material having a high visible-light-transmitting property is provided. A composite material including a hydrocarbon compound and an inorganic compound exhibiting an electron-accepting property with respect to the hydrocarbon compound is provided. The hydrocarbon compound has a substituent bonded to a naphthalene skeleton, a phenanthrene skeleton, or a triphenylene skeleton and has a molecular weight of 350 to 2000, and the substituent has one or more rings selected from a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a phenanthrene ring, and a triphenylene ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Kaori OGITA, Hiromi NOWATARI, Harue OSAKA, Takahiro USHIKUBO, Satoshi SEO, Takako TAKASU
  • Publication number: 20190058145
    Abstract: A light-emitting element whose degree of deterioration with driving time is improved and of which emission colors are easily controlled. A light-emitting emitting element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layer containing an organic compound located between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the layer containing the organic compound at least has, from the second electrode side, a light-emitting layer in which a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer are stacked, and a hole-transporting layer provided in contact with the third layer; the first layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound; the second layer contains a third organic compound and a fourth organic compound; and the third layer contains the first organic compound and a fifth organic compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ushikubo
  • Publication number: 20190040009
    Abstract: To provide a light-emitting element having high luminous efficiency and to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device which consumes low power and is driven at low voltage, a carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) is provided. In the formula, ?1, ?2, ?3, and ?4 each represent an arylene group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; Ar1 and Ar2 each represent an aryl group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; R1 represents any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; and R2 represents any of an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group. In addition, l, m, and n are each independently 0 or 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroko Nomura, Harue OSAKA, Takahiro USHIKUBO, Sachiko KAWAKAMI, Satoshi SEO, Satoko SHITAGAKI
  • Patent number: 10121972
    Abstract: A composite material which includes an organic compound and an inorganic compound and has a high carrier-transport property is provided. A composite material having a good property of carrier injection into an organic compound is provided. A composite material in which light absorption due to charge-transfer interaction is unlikely to occur is provided. A composite material having a high visible-light-transmitting property is provided. A composite material including a hydrocarbon compound and an inorganic compound exhibiting an electron-accepting property with respect to the hydrocarbon compound is provided. The hydrocarbon compound has a substituent bonded to a naphthalene skeleton, a phenanthrene skeleton, or a triphenylene skeleton and has a molecular weight of 350 to 2000, and the substituent has one or more rings selected from a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a phenanthrene ring, and a triphenylene ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaori Ogita, Hiromi Nowatari, Harue Osaka, Takahiro Ushikubo, Satoshi Seo, Takako Takasu
  • Patent number: 10115926
    Abstract: A light-emitting element whose degree of deterioration with driving time is improved and of which emission colors are easily controlled. A light-emitting emitting element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and a layer containing an organic compound located between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the layer containing the organic compound at least has, from the second electrode side, a light-emitting layer in which a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer are stacked, and a hole-transporting layer provided in contact with the third layer; the first layer contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound; the second layer contains a third organic compound and a fourth organic compound; and the third layer contains the first organic compound and a fifth organic compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ushikubo
  • Publication number: 20180301650
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element capable of emitting light with a high luminance even at a low voltage, and having a long lifetime. The light-emitting element includes n EL layers between an anode and a cathode (n is a natural number of two or more), and also includes, between m-th EL layer from the anode and (m+1)-th EL layer (m is a natural number, 1?m?n?1), a first layer including a first donor material in contact with the m-th EL layer, a second layer including an electron-transport material and a second donor material in contact with the first layer, and a third layer including a hole-transport material and an acceptor material in contact with the second layer and the (m+1)-th EL layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hiromi NOWATARI, Satoshi SEO, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Takahiro USHIKUBO, Tetsuo TSUTSUI
  • Publication number: 20180294431
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes an anode, an organic light-emitting unit formed on the anode, and a cathode formed on the organic light-emitting unit and containing In. The organic light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting layer, and an electron injection layer formed between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, and an In concentration in layers of the organic light-emitting unit other than the electron injection layer is equal to or less than one-twentieth that in the cathode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Hironori TOYODA, Takahiro USHIKUBO
  • Publication number: 20180294440
    Abstract: A display device includes a display region arranged above a substrate, a first light emitting element emitting light of a first color, a second light emitting element emitting light of a second color, and a third light emitting element emitting light of a third color arranged in the display region, and a first optical path length adjustment film, a second optical path length adjustment film, and a third optical path length adjustment film in the display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventor: Takahiro USHIKUBO
  • Publication number: 20180287089
    Abstract: A display device may include a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to each other. A plurality of light-emitting layers overlap with the respective plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of carrier generation layers are separated from one another. Each of the plurality of carrier generation layers continuously overlap with two of the plurality of light-emitting layers. The two are next to each other in a direction oblique to both the first direction and the second direction. A common electrode is opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takahiro USHIKUBO
  • Patent number: 10084156
    Abstract: A light-emitting element with which a reduction in power consumption and an improvement in productivity of a display device can be achieved is provided. A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. The light-emitting element includes an electrode having a reflective property, and a first light-emitting layer, a charge generation layer, a second light-emitting layer, and an electrode having a light-transmitting property stacked in this order over the electrode having a reflective property. The optical path length between the electrode having a reflective property and the first light-emitting layer is one-quarter of the peak wavelength of the emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer. The optical path length between the electrode having a reflective property and the second light-emitting layer is three-quarters of the peak wavelength of the emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki Sasaki, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Takahiro Ushikubo, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10062867
    Abstract: A light-emitting element having high external quantum efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element having a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains at least a phosphorescent compound, a first organic compound (host material) having an electron-transport property, and a second organic compound (assist material) having a hole-transport property. The light-emitting layer has a stacked-layer structure including a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer, and the first light-emitting layer contains a higher proportion of the second organic compound than the second light-emitting layer. In the light-emitting layer (the first light-emitting layer and the second light-emitting layer), a combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Seo, Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo, Takahiro Ushikubo, Toshiki Sasaki, Shogo Uesaka
  • Patent number: 10062736
    Abstract: A reflecting layer is provided for each of a white pixel PW and a plurality of chromatic color pixels PR, PG and PB. A semitransparent reflecting layer is provided for each of the white pixel PW and the plurality of chromatic color pixels PR, PG and PB. The distance between the reflecting layer and the semitransparent reflecting layer in the white pixel PW is larger than the largest distance among distances between the reflecting layer and the semitransparent reflecting layer in the chromatic color pixels PR, PG, PB. Such display device can suppress increase in manufacturing cost and obtain both merits of optical micro-cavity structure and of the white pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Norihisa Maeda, Takahiro Ushikubo
  • Patent number: 10050221
    Abstract: An object is to provide a light-emitting element capable of emitting light with a high luminance even at a low voltage, and having a long lifetime. The light-emitting element includes n EL layers between an anode and a cathode (n is a natural number of two or more), and also includes, between m-th EL layer from the anode and (m+1)-th EL layer (m is a natural number, 1?m?n?1), a first layer including a first donor material in contact with the m-th EL layer, a second layer including an electron-transport material and a second donor material in contact with the first layer, and a third layer including a hole-transport material and an acceptor material in contact with the second layer and the (m+1)-th EL layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiromi Nowatari, Satoshi Seo, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Takahiro Ushikubo, Tetsuo Tsutsui
  • Publication number: 20180219048
    Abstract: A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Satoshi Seo, Toshiki SASAKI, Nobuharu OHSAWA, Takahiro USHIKUBO, Shunpei YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 9997572
    Abstract: The reflecting layer is formed on a white pixel PW and chromatic color pixels PR, PG, and PB. The semitransparent reflecting layer is formed on the white pixel PW and the chromatic color pixels PR, PG, and PB. The semitransparent reflecting layer and the intermediate layer in the white pixel PW constitute the light scattering structure. According to this display device, it is possible to obtain an advantage of a micro-cavity structure and an advantage of the white pixel while suppressing an increase in manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Takahiro Ushikubo
  • Patent number: 9985223
    Abstract: Provided is a novel substance that can emit phosphorescence. Alternatively, provided is a novel substance with high emission efficiency. An organometallic complex in which a 4-arylpyrimidine derivative is a ligand and iridium is a central metal is provided. Specifically, an organometallic complex having a structure represented by a general formula (G1) is provided. In the general formula (G1), R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 represents any of hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, R3 represents hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted arylene group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideko Inoue, Tomoya Yamaguchi, Satoko Shitagaki, Takahiro Ushikubo, Satoshi Seo, Yui Yamada, Hiromi Nowatari
  • Publication number: 20180123068
    Abstract: Provided is a display device having a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel. The first pixel includes a first pixel electrode, a first EL layer over the first pixel electrode, and a second electrode over the first EL layer. The second pixel includes a second pixel electrode, a second EL layer over the second pixel electrode, and the second electrode over the second EL layer. The display device further possesses a first cap layer over the second electrode, a second cap layer over the first cap layer and overlapping with the first EL layer, and a third cap layer covering the second cap layer, overlapping with the first EL layer and the second EL layer, and in contact with the first cap layer in a region overlapping with the second EL layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Takahiro USHIKUBO, Norihisa Maeda