Patents by Inventor Takashi Takagi

Takashi Takagi 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: 7405781
    Abstract: A substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, including an insulating substrate cooperating with an oppositely arranged opposite substrate to hold a liquid crystal. A plurality of pixel regions are arranged on the insulating substrate in a matrix form, in each of which a switching element is formed. At least one resin color filter layer is formed on the pixel regions to cover the switching element. Additionally, at least one layer of the resin color filter layers of the plural colors has a cruciform-shaped pattern protruding to cover the switching elements of neighboring pixels when viewed in a direction of a normal of a substrate surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • Patent number: 7336335
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an electronic equipment and a liquid crystal display device including the same, and has an object to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display device in which high manufacturing yield and excellent display quality can be obtained, and a liquid crystal display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20070291200
    Abstract: By circular or polygonal openings formed in at least one of a metal film, a semiconductor film, an insulating film and the like, which films are below a reflecting electrode, minute irregularities are densely formed on a surface of the reflecting electrode. In this case, it is required that a linear density defined by peripheral dimensions of the openings per unit area is equal to 0.2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kunihiro Tashiro, Yasutoshi Tasaka, Hidefumi Yoshida, Yoshinori Tanaka, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Manabu Sawasaki, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Isao Tsushima, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Norio Sugiura
  • Patent number: 7304712
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device that is used in display portions of electronics devices and a manufacturing method thereof, and intends to provide a liquid crystal display device that can obtain excellent display quality and a manufacturing method thereof. The method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device includes preparing a pair of substrates that have a structure P1 having a height Hp1 and a structure P2 having a height Hp2, the heights Hp1 and Hp2 satisfying a relationship of 0.3 (?m)?Hp1?Hp2?1.0 (?m); controlling a dropping amount V of liquid crystal so that a cell gap G1 that is determined by the dropping amount V of liquid crystal, the height Hp1 and the height Hp2 satisfy a relationship of Hp2<G1<Hp1; dropping the controlled dropping amount V of liquid crystal on one of the pair of substrates; and attaching the pair of substrates in a vacuum followed by returning to an atmospheric pressure to fill in the liquid crystal between the pair of substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Yoji Taniguchi, Takashi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20070258025
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining high luminance and good display characteristics, a substrate for such a liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate, are provided. A color filter substrate that holds, together with an array substrate, a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. Color filters are formed on a glass substrate and a common electrode is formed on the color filters. Protrusions and auxiliary protrusions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal are formed on the common electrode so as to have different sectional shapes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose
  • Patent number: 7245345
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining high luminance and good display characteristics, a substrate for such a liquid crystal display device, and a manufacturing method of such a substrate, are provided. A color filter substrate holds, together with an array substrate, a liquid crystal having negative dielectric anisotropy. Color filters are formed on a glass substrate and a common electrode is formed on the color filters. Protrusions and auxiliary protrusions for regulating the alignment of the liquid crystal are formed on the common electrode so as to have different sectional shapes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose
  • Publication number: 20070103607
    Abstract: The invention has an object to provide a liquid crystal display device of an excellent viewing angle characteristic and high brightness, including: sandwiching liquid crystals containing polymerizable monomers between a first substrate with a pixel electrode having a micro slit and a second substrate facing the first substrate; polymerizing the monomers with voltage applied to the liquid crystals; and controlling an alignment orientation of the liquid crystals to a direction of extending the micro slit, wherein the pixel electrode includes: a direct coupling part electrically connected to a switching element; a capacitive coupling part electrically insulated from the switching element, and forming capacitance with a control capacitance electrode having a same potential as that of a source electrode of the switching element; and a space between the direct and capacitive coupling parts, wherein directions of extending the micro slit in the adjacent direct and capacitive coupling parts are orthogonal to each oth
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 10, 2007
    Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazutaka Hanaoka, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kunihiro Tashiro, Jin Hirosawa, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii, Shota Makimoto, Yasuhiro Ohno, Isao Tsushima, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takahiro Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20060285059
    Abstract: On a TFT substrate, gate bus lines, data bus lines, picture element electrodes, and the like are formed, and further a first alignment film is formed of polyimide or the like. On an opposing substrate, black matrices, common electrodes, and the like formed; and further column-like spacers are formed at positions facing regions where the gate bus lines and the data bus lines cross. A second alignment film covering the surfaces of the common electrode and the spacers is formed. However, the first and second alignment films are maintained semi-setting. Thereafter, the TFT substrate and the opposing substrate are overlapped, and heated at high temperature under pressure; and the second alignment film on the apexes of the spacers and the first alignment film on the TFT substrate side are joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi TAKAGI, Manabu SAWASAKI, Tetsuya FUJIKAWA
  • Patent number: 7145619
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display, a liquid crystal display having the same, and a method of manufacturing the same which make it possible to provide a display having high luminance and preferable display characteristics to be used in display sections of information apparatuses and the like. Each pixel is defined by gate bus lines extending in the horizontal direction and drain bus lines extending in the vertical direction. TFTs are formed in the vicinity of intersections between the bus lines, and resin overlap sections for shielding the TFTs from light are formed above the same. No black matrix is formed on a common electrode substrate which is provided in a face-to-face relationship with a TFT substrate, and the bus lines and the resin overlap sections formed on the TFT substrate function as a black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Katsunori Misaki, Shiro Hirota
  • Patent number: 7130012
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal layer clamped between a first and second substrates. The method includes the steps of: forming a pixel electrode pattern on the first substrate; painting a resist film on the pixel electrode pattern; exposing and developing the resist film and forming a resist pattern having a shape on the pixel electrode pattern in which multiple branches extend outwardly from both sides of a main stem connecting among the multiple braches; and conducting an ashing process and a thermosetting process for the resist pattern. Liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer orient approximately in vertical to a surface of the liquid crystal layer in a non-driving state, and the liquid crystal molecules orient approximately in parallel to the surface of the liquid crystal layer in a driving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Seiji Doi, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Takashi Takagi, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20060227269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vertically aligned liquid crystal display and a method of manufacturing the same and provides a liquid crystal display in which singular points can be sufficiently controlled to achieve high display quality and a method of manufacturing the same. A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate having a pixel electrode including one or more electrode units electrically connected to each other, a second substrate facing the pixel and having a light shield portion constituted by a metal film, a color separation filter at an opening thereof, and a common electrode on a surface thereof, and a liquid crystal layer having negative dielectric constant anisotropy sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A surface of the common electrode facing at least one-fourth of a non-electrode part at the outer periphery of the electrode unit is formed with a height of 0.2 ?m or more or a height in the range from 0.4 to 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Manabu Sawasaki, Takashi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20060146243
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention is constituted of a TFT substrate and an opposing substrate which are arranged so as to be opposite to each other with a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. In addition, in the liquid crystal layer, formed is a polymer into which a polymer component added to liquid crystal is polymerized, and which determines directions in which liquid crystal molecules tilt when voltage is applied. In the TFT substrate, formed are a sub picture element electrode directly connected to a TFT and a sub picture element electrode connected to the TFT through capacitive coupling. In each of these sub picture element electrodes, formed are slits extending in directions respectively at angles of 45 degrees, 135 degrees, 225 degrees and 315 degrees to the X axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Yohei Nakanishi, Kunihiro Tashiro, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Kazutaka Hanaoka, Jin Hirosawa, Norio Sugiura, Kengo Kanii, Shota Makimoto, Naoto Kondo, Isao Tsushima, Tomonori Tanose, Takashi Takagi, Tetsuya Fujikawa
  • Publication number: 20060125994
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20060125993
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2006
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • Patent number: 7050137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display of a CF-on-TFT structure in which a color filter is formed on the side of an array substrate in which a switching element is formed, and has an object to provide a substrate for use in a liquid crystal display, which enables simplification of a manufacturing process typified by a photolithography process and has high reliability. The substrate for use in the liquid crystal display is constructed to include external connection terminals which include first terminal electrodes electrically connected to gate bus lines led out from a plurality of pixel regions arranged on a glass substrate in a matrix form, second terminal electrodes formed of forming material of a pixel electrode and directly on the glass substrate, and electrode coupling regions for electrically connecting the first and the second terminal electrodes, and which electrically connect an external circuit and the gate bus lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atuyuki Hoshino, Shiro Hirota, Naoto Kondo, Tetsuya Fujikawa, Masahiro Kihara, Katsunori Misaki, Seiji Doi, Tomoshige Oda, Akira Komorita, Akihiro Matsui, Manabu Sawasaki, Masahiro Ikeda, Takashi Takagi, Tomonori Tanose, Takuya Saguchi, Hidetoshi Sukenori, Hiroyasu Inoue
  • Publication number: 20060044502
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display filled with a liquid crystal by dispensing the liquid crystal onto a substrate, combining the substrate with an opposite substrate in vacuum with the surface of the substrate having the liquid crystal thereon facing the opposite substrate, and restoring the atmospheric pressure. The invention provides a liquid crystal display in which degradation of display quality due to an irregularity attributable to gravity can be suppressed. The liquid crystal display has a pair of substrates opposite to each other, a liquid crystal sealed between the substrates, a convex portion protruding into the liquid crystal from a surface of at least either of the pair of substrates and extending in a substantially horizontal direction when the pair of substrates is erected in the vertical direction, and a gap formed between the protruding end of the convex portion and a surface of the other substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Publication date: March 2, 2006
    Inventor: Takashi Takagi
  • Patent number: 7001714
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a substrate for MVA type or transreflective liquid crystal display device capable of obtaining a substrate for liquid crystal display device having a good display quality while simplifying the production process and a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display device using same. A positive-working resist is spread over a glass substrate to form a resist layer thereon. The resist layer is exposed to light and developed to form a resist pattern having linear patterns. The linear pattern in the resist pattern is then irradiated with ultraviolet rays. The resist pattern is then subjected to heat treatment at a predetermined temperature to form a structure having a flat portion formed by the melt flow of the linear pattern irradiated with ultraviolet rays and a protrusion formed by the reflow of the linear pattern unirradiated with ultraviolet rays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashi Takagi, Manabu Sawasaki
  • Publication number: 20060033877
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate for a liquid crystal display device used as a display part of an electronic equipment and a liquid crystal display device including the same, and has an object to provide a substrate for a liquid crystal display device in which high manufacturing yield and excellent display quality can be obtained, and a liquid crystal display device including the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2005
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Takashi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20050248700
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid crystal display used in a display section of an electronic apparatus and a liquid crystal display substrate used for the same and provides a liquid crystal display that can be manufactured through simplified manufacturing processes and that can provide high display quality and a liquid crystal display substrate used for the same. A configuration is employed which includes gate bus lines and drain bus lines formed on a substrate such that they intersect each other with an insulation film interposed therebetween and pixel electrodes provided so as to cover at least one of the gate bus lines and the drain bus lines with a dielectric layer interposed therebetween and forming parasitic capacities between the gate bus lines or drain bus lines and themselves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2003
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Takashi Takagi, Atsuyuki Hoshino, Manabu Sawasaki, Takuya Saguchi
  • Patent number: 6959832
    Abstract: A lid member for a food container having a layered structure in which a surface sheet is laid on a composite sheet, said surface sheet including an easily-peelable area that is easily separated from the composite sheet, formed by applying a lubricant between the surface sheet and the composite sheet, said surface sheet including a non-peelable area adjacent to said easily-peelable area; a first slit cut vertical-sectionally through the composite sheet, said first slit defining one or more apertures in said lid to form an opening area in said composite sheet; a second slit in said surface sheet defining a boundary between the easily-peelable area and said non-peelable area of said surface sheet; and said surface sheet being adhered to said composite sheet at said composite sheet opening area over an area that is smaller than said composite sheet opening area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nissin Shokuhin Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Sawada, Mitsuo Yoshimura, Hirofumi Kawai, Takashi Takagi, Yuko Zenpuku