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).

  • Patent number: 9984627
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels, and a plurality of signal lines and a plurality of power lines. The plurality of pixels are disposed in matrix. The plurality of signal lines and the plurality of power lines both extend in a column direction. The plurality of power lines include a plurality of first power lines assigned to respective odd-numbered pixel rows and a plurality of second power lines assigned to respective even-numbered pixel rows. The first power lines are electrically coupled to one another. The second power lines are electrically coupled to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujimura, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9984625
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180137824
    Abstract: A pixel circuit having a function of compensating for characteristic variation of an electro-optical element and threshold voltage variation of a transistor is formed from a reduced number of component elements. An input signal is sampled from a signal line so as to be held in a holding capacitor. The threshold voltage of the drive transistor is imparted to the holding capacitor in order to cancel an influence of the threshold voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9972244
    Abstract: 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) a drive transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, (B) a video signal write transistor having source/drain regions, a channel forming region, and a gate electrode, and (C) a capacitive unit. In the drive transistor, (A-1) one of the source/drain regions is connected to the corresponding current supply line, (A-2) 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 (A-3) 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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Yamashita, Yusuke Onoyama, Tetsuo Minami, Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9972282
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino, Masakazu Kato
  • Patent number: 9947270
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9944790
    Abstract: A resin composition including 40 parts by weight or more and less than 95 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin and 5 parts by weight or more and less than 60 parts by weight of a polyester-polyether copolymer as a base resin, wherein the polyester-polyether copolymer is a copolymer which is obtained by a polymerization using a germanium compound catalyst, includes aromatic polyester units and modified polyether units represented by the following general formula 1, and has an IV value within a range of 0.30 to 1.00 can be well-balanced in moldability, heat resistance, impact resistance, and low linear expansion property, without deteriorating a surface appearance of a molding obtained therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hidekazu Kawakubo, Shuji Taketani, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180080959
    Abstract: A beam current measuring device capable of performing measurement of a beam current distribution of a charged particle beam seamlessly and continuously in an arbitrary direction is provided. The beam current measuring device includes collector electrodes whose detection regions seamlessly continue in an arrangement direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: NISSIN ION EQUIPMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideyasu UNE, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO, Yoshihiro TAKIGAMI
  • Patent number: 9923041
    Abstract: A display device including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixels including a sampling transistor configured to sample a data potential from a video signal line which is insulated from and intersects a control line in response to the change in potential of the control line, and a light-emitting element configured to emit light at the brightness commensurate with the magnitude of the post-sampling data potential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9911383
    Abstract: A pixel circuit able to prevent a spread of the terminal voltages of drive transistors inside a panel and in turn able to reliably prevent deterioration of uniformity, wherein a source of a TFT serving as a drive transistor is connected to an anode of a light emitting element, a drain 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 serving as a switch transistor and wherein pixel circuit lines are connected by an upper line and bottom line and are arranged in parallel with pixel circuit power source voltage lines so as not to have intersecting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katsuhide Uchino, Junichi Yamashita, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20180053468
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9852684
    Abstract: Provided is a drive circuit that includes a scanning circuit configured to perform a first vertical scanning and a second vertical scanning on each of first and second display regions, adjacent to each other in a vertical direction in a display region including pixels, individually in one frame. The first vertical scanning causes light emission of each pixel to be performed, and the second vertical scanning causes light extinction of each pixel to be performed. The scanning circuit is configured to perform the first vertical scanning and the second vertical scanning to cause timing of starting the light emission of an n+1th frame for a first scanned row, adjacent to the first display region, in the second display region to be later than timing of ending the light emission of an n-th frame for a final scanned row, adjacent to the second display region, in the first display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventors: Naobumi Toyomura, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170342260
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicants: WinTech Polymer Ltd., KANEKA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kouichi Sakata, Shinya Yamada, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Matsuoka, Toyohisa Fujimoto
  • Publication number: 20170271425
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Taneda, Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Patent number: 9767724
    Abstract: A display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of power lines. The plurality of pixels are disposed in a matrix and include respective light-emitting devices and respective pixel circuits. The pixel circuits are disposed at unequal intervals in a column direction. The light-emitting devices are provided to allow light-emitting regions of the respective light-emitting devices to have an equal interval in the column direction. The plurality of power lines are extended in a row direction and each supply a current flowing into the light-emitting device. Each one of the plurality of power lines is disposed for a plurality of pixel rows. A spacing between the pixel circuits in the column direction is relatively large at a portion facing one of the power lines. A spacing between the pixel circuits in the column direction is relatively small at a portion facing wiring other than the power lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED Inc.
    Inventor: Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9766227
    Abstract: An objective is to provide screening methods for substances having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes. It was revealed that in the maturation process of erythrocytes and platelets, RP S19 multimers are released to the outside of the cell and act on the C5a receptors of erythroblasts and megakaryocytes, thereby causing maturation of erythroblasts and megakaryocytes to erythrocytes and platelets. Based on such findings, the present invention provides methods of screening for substances having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes by targeting the RP S19 multimers and C5a receptors. The screening methods of the present invention can detect hemocyte maturation using an increase of the R4 RGS family as an indicator. Furthermore, the present invention provides agents for promoting hemocyte maturation, which comprise RP S19 multimers and a substance having an activity of promoting maturation into hemocytes as useful components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Bloom Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Nishiura, Hideki Saito
  • Patent number: 9734982
    Abstract: A beam current density distribution adjustment device is provided. The device includes member pairs in a long side direction of a ribbon beam, the member pairs adjusting a beam current density distribution in the long side direction of the ribbon beam by using an electric field or a magnetic field, members of each of the member pairs being disposed with the ribbon beam in-between the members. Opposing surfaces of the member pairs adjacent to each other in the long side direction of the ribbon beam are partially not parallel to a traveling direction of the ribbon beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Nissin Ion Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sami K. Hahto, Tetsuro Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170229067
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhide UCHINO, Junichi YAMASHITA, Tetsuro YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170221977
    Abstract: A display device including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, each of the pixels including a sampling transistor configured to sample a data potential from a video signal line which is insulated from and intersects a control line in response to the change in potential of the control line, and a light-emitting element configured to emit light at the brightness commensurate with the magnitude of the post-sampling data potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino
  • Publication number: 20170221936
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a plurality of subpixels disposed adjacent each other and forming one pixel which forms a unit for formation of a color image; the plurality of subpixels including a first subpixel which emits light of the shortest wavelength and a second subpixel disposed adjacent the first subpixel; the second subpixel having a light blocking member disposed between the second subpixel and the first subpixel and having a width greater than a channel length or a channel width of a transistor which forms the second subpixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Tetsuro Yamamoto, Katsuhide Uchino