Patents by Inventor Takehiko Kubota

Takehiko Kubota 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: 20240397797
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a transflective first electrode, a first reflective layer, a first pixel electrode provided between the first electrode and the first reflective layer, a second reflective layer, a second pixel electrode provided between the first electrode and the second reflective layer, a light-emitting layer provided between the first electrode, and the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, and an insulating layer provided between the first pixel electrode and the first reflective layer. The insulating layer extends from the first pixel electrode and between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode in plan view. A surface of the insulating layer on the light-emitting layer side includes a plurality of steps between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240379059
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes one or more control lines that include a scanning line, a data line and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a drive transistor, a write-in transistor with a gate which is electrically connected to the scanning line, a light-emitting element that emits light at a brightness that depends on the size of a current that is supplied through the drive transistor, and a control line which overlaps the gate of the drive transistor when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of a substrate on which the pixel circuit is formed is included in the one or more control lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TOYA, Takehiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240334751
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a first light-emitting element including a first pixel electrode, and a first light emission function layer including a first light-emitting layer, a first contact portion, a second light-emitting element including a second pixel electrode, a second light emission function layer, a second contact portion, and a pixel separation layer including a first opening portion and a second opening portion. The first pixel electrode includes a first electrode portion and a first coupling portion overlapping the first contact portion. The second pixel electrode includes a second electrode portion and a second coupling portion overlapping the second contact portion. The first coupling portion includes a portion located closer to the counter electrode than the first electrode portion. The second coupling portion includes a portion located closer to the counter electrode than the second electrode portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240321209
    Abstract: A pixel circuit includes an OLED that emits light with a luminance corresponding to a current flowing from an anode to a cathode, and a transistor that causes a current corresponding to a voltage between a gate node and a source node. The control circuit supplies a potential to the gate node via a data line in a writing period of a first frame, supplies a potential Vel for setting the transistor to be in an OFF state to the gate node via the data line in a first initialization period, and executes a reset operation in an odd-numbered row and a non-reset operation in an even-numbered row in a second initialization period. The reset operation is an operation of supplying a potential Vorst, and the non-reset operation is an operation of setting the potentials of the data line and anode to a potential between the potential Vel and Vorst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Kubota
  • Patent number: 12080235
    Abstract: A pixel circuit provided corresponding to a scanning line and a data line includes a transistor and an OLED serving as one example of a light emitting element. In a compensation period, a gate node and a drain node of the transistor are electrically coupled to each other to cause a voltage of the gate node of the transistor to be a voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage. In the gate writing period, a voltage of the gate node of the transistor is varied from a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage into a voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED, and the voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED is applied to the drain node of the transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko Kubota, Hitoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 12073789
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes one or more control lines that include a scanning line, a data line and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a drive transistor, a write-in transistor with a gate which is electrically connected to the scanning line, a light-emitting element that emits light at a brightness that depends on the size of a current that is supplied through the drive transistor, and a control line which overlaps the gate of the drive transistor when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of a substrate on which the pixel circuit is formed is included in the one or more control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Toya, Takehiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240282270
    Abstract: An electro-optical device including at least one of an optical sensor and a temperature sensor, a pixel circuit and a control circuit is provided. The pixel circuit includes an OLED that emits light at brightness corresponding to a current flowing from an anode to a cathode, and a transistor that causes a current corresponding to a voltage between a gate node and a source node to flow through the OLED. The control circuit executes a reset operation or a non-reset operation in accordance with information that is a detection result of an optical sensor and information that is a detection result of a temperature sensor. The reset operation is an operation of supplying a predetermined potential to the anode via a data line. The non-reset operation is an operation of distributing an electric charge accumulated in the data line to the anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240274080
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line, a pixel circuit provided corresponding to an intersection between the scanning line and the data line and including an OLED, a DA conversion circuit that outputs, to a data signal output line, a data signal at a potential corresponding to the brightness of the OLED, a capacitance element having one end coupled to the data signal output line and the other end coupled to the data line, a capacitance element having one end coupled to the data line, and a NOT circuit that shifts a potential of the other end of the capacitance element before the data signal is output or after the data signal is output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko KUBOTA, Hitoshi OTA
  • Patent number: 12052904
    Abstract: An organic EL device includes a counter electrode, a first reflection layer provided so as to be separate from the counter electrode by a first optical distance, a first pixel electrode provided between the counter electrode and the first reflection layer, a light emitting layer provided between the counter electrode and the first pixel electrode, an optical distance adjustment layer provided between the first pixel electrode and the first reflection layer, and a first relay electrode provided between the first pixel electrode and the first reflection layer, and configured to electrically couple the first pixel electrode and the first reflection layer, wherein the optical distance adjustment layer is provided so as to be separate from the first relay electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20240212614
    Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting element, a data line, a wiring line, a first constant potential line to which a first constant potential is supplied, a first transistor configured to supply a drive current corresponding to a video signal supplied via the wiring line and the data line to the light-emitting element, a second transistor configured to electrically couple the data line to the first constant potential line, and a switching element configured to electrically couple the data line to the wiring line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko KUBOTA, Hitoshi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240199381
    Abstract: A landing-door switch circuit according to the present disclosure includes an upper-car safety circuit, an upper-car auxiliary circuit, a lower-car safety circuit, and a lower-car auxiliary circuit. The upper-car safety circuit and the lower-car safety circuit connect excitation coils of switching devices of a power supply for driving an upper car and a lower car, respectively, and a power supply, and include main circuits in which landing-door switches are connected in series, and first connection units and third connection units branched from the main circuits. The upper-car auxiliary circuit and the lower-car auxiliary circuit include a second connection unit and a fourth connection unit on the lower car and the upper car, respectively, to bypass the landing-door switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20240178880
    Abstract: To provide a transmission system capable of ensuring reliability of signal transmission. The transmission system includes: a remote unit alternately outputting pulse voltage with a positive polarity and pulse voltage with a negative polarity as a signal by causing a first switching element and a second switching element to alternately open and close; and a master unit accepting input of a signal from the remote unit via a cable, and separating the signal into a first signal corresponding to the pulse voltage with the positive polarity and a second signal corresponding to the pulse voltage with the negative polarity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230345780
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, a driving transistor provided corresponding to the light-emitting element, a relay electrode electrically coupled to a gate electrode of the driving transistor and provided at a layer between the gate electrode and the first electrode of the light-emitting element, a power supply line provided at the same layer as that of the relay electrode, extending in a first direction in plan view, and electrically coupled to the first electrode of the light-emitting element, and a conductive member provided between the relay electrode and the power supply line in plan view and supplied with a constant potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230317010
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes one or more control lines that include a scanning line, a data line and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a drive transistor, a write-in transistor with a gate which is electrically connected to the scanning line, a light-emitting element that emits light at a brightness that depends on the size of a current that is supplied through the drive transistor, and a control line which overlaps the gate of the drive transistor when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of a substrate on which the pixel circuit is formed is included in the one or more control lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TOYA, Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Publication number: 20230301594
    Abstract: A detecting device includes a substrate and a plurality of detecting elements arranged in a matrix at the substrate. Each of the plurality of detecting elements includes a light emitting portion that emits light toward a living body, a light receiving portion that can receive light incident from the living body based on the light emitted from the light emitting portion, and a contact detecting portion that detects contact with the living body. The light emitting portion in each of the plurality of detecting elements emits light when the contact detecting portion in the same detecting element has detected contact with the living body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takefumi FUKAGAWA, Hiromu TAKAYAMA, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11710454
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes one or more control lines that include a scanning line, a data line and a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit has a drive transistor, a write-in transistor with a gate which is electrically connected to the scanning line, a light-emitting element that emits light at a brightness that depends on the size of a current that is supplied through the drive transistor, and a control line which overlaps the gate of the drive transistor when viewed from a direction that is perpendicular to a surface of a substrate on which the pixel circuit is formed is included in the one or more control lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Toya, Takehiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20230186855
    Abstract: A pixel circuit provided corresponding to a scanning line and a data line includes a transistor and an OLED serving as one example of a light emitting element. In a compensation period, a gate node and a drain node of the transistor are electrically coupled to each other to cause a voltage of the gate node of the transistor to be a voltage corresponding to a threshold voltage. In the gate writing period, a voltage of the gate node of the transistor is varied from a voltage corresponding to the threshold voltage into a voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED, and the voltage corresponding to luminance of the OLED is applied to the drain node of the transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehiko KUBOTA, Hitoshi OTA
  • Publication number: 20230110908
    Abstract: A region where a pixel electrode and a light emitting layer overlap with each other in plan view includes: a light emitting region where the pixel electrode and the light emitting layer are in contact with each other; a pixel contact region where the pixel electrode and a relay layer overlap with each other in plan view; and a dummy contact region that overlaps with the pixel electrode, the dummy relay layer, and a common electrode. In a direction of a thickness of a substrate, a distance between a reflection layer and the pixel electrode in the dummy contact region is longer than a distance between the reflection layer and the pixel electrode in the pixel contact region. A color layer is provided at a portion that overlaps with the dummy contact region in plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi TAMURA, Shinichi IWATA, Takehiko KUBOTA
  • Patent number: 11623843
    Abstract: An elevator inspection operation apparatus for performing an inspection operation for a car in a pit of an elevator includes: an operation mode selector switch configured to switch an operation mode between a normal operation and the inspection operation; a return switch, which is provided outside the pit of the elevator, and is to be manipulated when the operation mode is to be switched from the inspection operation to the normal operation; and a latching relay configured to be latched to an inspection operation side when the operation mode has been switched from the normal operation to the inspection operation by the operation mode selector switch, and to maintain a latched state until the return switch is manipulated when the operation mode has been switched from the inspection operation to the normal operation by the operation mode selector switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shingo Kondo, Takehiko Kubota
  • Publication number: 20220351562
    Abstract: A reception terminal, included in a management system for managing entry and/or exit of a user in a security zone that includes a server room of a data center, the reception terminal that issues reception information upon accepting personal information of the user prior to the entry into the security zone, includes: a personal authentication part that is used for a personal authentication of the user visiting the data center; and an issuing part that issues, in a case where biometric information is pre-registered in addition to a performance of a personal identification, authorization information representing an authorization of the entry of the user into a particular server room in response to existence of personal information associated with the reception information input by the user, and a satisfaction of a visit condition of visit information associated with the input reception information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: NTT Ltd Japan Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuo FUJII, Takehiko KUBOTA, Masaji KAWASAKI