Patents by Inventor Tetsuro Yamamoto
Tetsuro Yamamoto 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).
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Patent number: 10950168Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10885837Abstract: A display device includes: a plurality of light-emitting elements, each light-emitting element having a light-emitting unit and a driving circuit for driving the light-emitting unit. The driving circuit at least includes a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, the other region of the source/drain regions is connected to the light-emitting unit and connected to one end of the capacitive unit, and forms a second node, and the gate electrode is connected to the other region of the source/drain regions of the video signal write transistor and connected to the other end of the capacitive unit, and forms a first node.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 10818242Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a write transistor, a first switching transistor, a first storage capacitor, a second and third switching transistors, and a second storage capacitor. The driving transistor controls a current flowing in a light-emitting device. The write transistor controls application of a signal voltage to a source end of the driving transistor. The first switching transistor controls a gate voltage of the driving transistor during correction operation that allows a gate-source voltage of the driving transistor to come close to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The second switching and third switching transistors are provided, in series, at an electrically conductive path between the source end of the driving transistor and a first voltage line.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10803834Abstract: An EL display panel including: a pixel array section in which EL display elements whose light emission state is controlled by an active matrix driving system are arranged in a form of a matrix; a first writing control line driving section and a second writing control line driving section configured to drive each writing control line from both sides of the pixel array section; and a first power supply line driving section and a second power supply line driving section configured to drive a power supply line disposed along a direction of a horizontal line from both sides of the pixel array section, the first power supply line driving section and the second power supply line driving section being respectively arranged between the first writing control line driving section and the pixel array section and between the second writing control line driving section and the pixel array section.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino, Masakazu Kato
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Patent number: 10783822Abstract: A transfer circuit includes an input circuit, a reset circuit, an output circuit, and an output stabilizer circuit, and obtains an input signal at an input terminal, holds the input signal, and outputs the input signal from an output terminal as an output signal in synchronization with a clock signal. The output stabilizer circuit includes an inverter circuit and a transistor. The inverter circuit outputs from an output terminal an inverted signal having an inverted polarity of at least one of the input signal and the output signal. The transistor has a control signal end connected to the output terminal of the inverter circuit, a first main signal end connected to a power supply line of the output stabilizer circuit, and a second main signal end connected to the output terminal of the transfer circuit.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10770003Abstract: A transfer circuit includes an input circuit, a reset circuit, an output circuit, and an output stabilizer circuit, and obtains an input signal at an input terminal, holds the input signal, and outputs the input signal from an output terminal as an output signal in synchronization with a clock signal. The transfer circuit includes an inverter circuit that has an input terminal connected to at least one of the input and output terminals of the transfer circuit, and outputs, from an output terminal, an inverted signal having an inverted polarity of at least one of the input and output signals. The reset circuit includes a first transistor having a control signal end connected to the output terminal of the inverter circuit, the first transistor switching continuity and discontinuity of a signal path between one end of a first capacitor that holds the input signal and a first power supply.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10763073Abstract: An ion source is provided. The ion source includes a plasma generation container, an electron supply, an electromagnet and a shift means. The plasma generation container generates an ion beam to be extracted therefrom in an ion beam extraction direction. The electron supply supplies electrons into the plasma generation container. The electromagnet generates a magnetic field for capturing the electrons from the electron supply. The shift means shifts a center of the magnetic field in the ion beam extraction direction to change a rate of a desired type of ion to be contained in the ion beam.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10749134Abstract: The pixels of an organic EL display panel each include an anode electrode layer, an organic layer, and a cathode electrode layer. Each of the organic layer and the cathode electrode layer is shared by the plurality of pixels. An organic EL element in each of the pixels includes an anode section, a cathode section, and a light emitting section. A conductor layer having a recess is provided in a region outside a region of the organic EL element in a view from a light exiting direction in which the organic EL element emits light. The recess includes a coated section that is covered with the organic layer and a conductor exposed section where the conductor layer is exposed. The cathode electrode layer is connected to part of the conductor exposed section.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Yasunobu Hiromasu
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Patent number: 10727290Abstract: An active-matrix display device includes pixels arranged in a matrix, and each of the pixels includes subpixels that are arranged along an X direction and emit light of mutually different colors. Each of the subpixels includes a TFT element provided on a TFT substrate and an organic EL element provided on the TFT substrate. The organic EL element has an opening which is a region from which emitted light exits, and the TFT substrate includes a first layer and a second layer. When same-colored subpixels of two of the pixels adjacent in the X direction are seen in a plan view, the first layer has a portion arranged in line symmetry between the same-colored subpixels and the second layer is disposed at an identical position in the openings of the same-colored subpixels.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10714302Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a beam current measuring device and a first electrode. The beam current measuring device is retractably movable into an ion beam trajectory so as to measure an ion beam current. The first electrode is disposed immediately upstream of the beam current measuring device in an ion beam transport channel. The first electrode serves both as a suppressor electrode for repelling secondary electrons released from the beam current measuring device, back toward the beam current measuring device, and as a beam optical element other than the suppressor electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10685601Abstract: A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a write transistor, a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first storage capacitor, and a second storage capacitor. The driving transistor controls a current flowing in a light-emitting device. The write transistor controls application of a signal voltage to a gate of the driving transistor. The first switching transistor controls a gate voltage of the driving transistor upon correction operation that allows a gate-source voltage of the driving transistor to come close to a threshold voltage of the driving transistor. The second switching transistor is provided at a path between first and second terminals. The first storage capacitor is provided at a path between the gate of the driving transistor and the first terminal. The second storage capacitor is provided at a path between the gate of the driving transistor and the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10672850Abstract: A display unit with which lowering of long-term reliability of a transistor is decreased is provided. The display unit includes a display section having a plurality of organic EL devices with light emitting color different from each other and a plurality of pixel circuits that are singly provided for every said organic EL device for every pixel. The pixel circuit has a first transistor for writing a video signal, a second transistor for driving the organic EL device based on the video signal written by the first transistor, and a retentive capacity, and out of the first transistor and the second transistor, a third transistor provided correspondingly to a second organic EL device adjacent to a first organic EL device is arranged farther from the first organic EL device than a first retentive capacity provided correspondingly to the second organic EL device out of the retentive capacity.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Takayuki Taneda, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
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Patent number: 10655007Abstract: Disclosed are: a polyalkylene terephthalate resin composition comprising (A) a polyalkylene terephthalate resin and (B) an acrylic-based core-shell polymer which has an average particle size of 2 ?m or greater and in which an amount of the core layer component is more than 80% by mass but less than 100% by mass relative to a total mass of the core layer component and a shell layer component; and a molded article which is obtained by molding the polyalkylene terephthalate resin composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignees: POLYPLASTICS CO., LTD., KANEKA CORPORATIONInventors: Kouichi Sakata, Shinya Yamada, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Matsuoka, Toyohisa Fujimoto
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Patent number: 10657880Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Sagawa, Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10622504Abstract: A photodetector circuit includes: a photodetector transistor; a current output transistor; a switching transistor; and a first capacitor. The source of the photodetector transistor, the gate of the current output transistor, and the first terminal of the first capacitor are connected to one another. The source of the current output transistor, the drain of the switching transistor, and the second terminal of the first capacitor are connected to one another. The photodetector transistor has a drain connected to a reference potential line, and upon receiving light when the photodetector transistor is in an off state, the source of the photodetector transistor collects electric charges generated by an internal photoelectric effect. The current output transistor has a drain connected to a power line which can have a first power supply potential and a second power supply potential. The switching transistor has a source connected to a photodetection line.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: JOLED INC.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 10573490Abstract: An ion source for improving beam transport efficiency regarding a ribbon beam is provided. The plasma generation container is formed with a beam extraction port at an end thereof. The shielding member plugs the beam extraction port and comprises three or more elongate holes each of which is long in a lateral direction of a ribbon beam to be extracted through the shielding member and which are arranged in the form of an array extending in the lateral direction, wherein a first length one of the elongate holes located in a central region of the array is shorter than a second length of one of the remaining elongate holes located on an end side of the array.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20200051502Abstract: A pixel circuit, display device, and method of driving a pixel circuit enabling source-follower output with no deterioration of luminance even with a change of the current-voltage characteristic of the light emitting element along with elapse, enabling a source-follower circuit of n-channel transistors, and able to use an n-channel transistor as an EL drive transistor while using current anode-cathode electrodes. The circuit includes a source of a TFT used as a drive transistor that is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, and a drain of the TFT is connected to a power source potential. A capacitor is connected between a gate and source of the TFT, and a source potential of the TFT is connected to a fixed potential through a TFT used as a switching transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
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Publication number: 20190392756Abstract: An electroluminescent display panel has pixel circuits for an active matrix driving system. At least one of the pixel circuits has a thin-film transistor in which a portion of a pattern of a metal wiring material above a channel layer of the thin-film transistor is disposed to shield the channel region of the thin-film transistor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
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Publication number: 20190371563Abstract: An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a beam current measuring device and a first electrode. The beam current measuring device is retractably movable into an ion beam trajectory so as to measure an ion beam current. The first electrode is disposed immediately upstream of the beam current measuring device in an ion beam transport channel. The first electrode serves both as a suppressor electrode for repelling secondary electrons released from the beam current measuring device, back toward the beam current measuring device, and as a beam optical element other than the suppressor electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
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Patent number: RE47916Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pixel unit in which pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern; and a driving circuit for driving the pixel unit. Each of the pixels includes a signal level holding capacitor; a first transistor that is turned on/off in response to a writing signal and via which one end of the signal level holding capacitor is connected to a signal line; a second transistor having one end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a gate thereof and the other end of the signal level holding capacitor connected to a source thereof; a current-driven self-light-emitting element whose cathode is held at a cathode potential and whose anode is connected to the source of the second transistor; a third transistor that is turned on/off in response to a driving pulse signal; and a fourth transistor that is turned on/off in response to a control signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Junichi Yamashita