Patents by Inventor Tommie Royster

Tommie Royster 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: 9118024
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent device including a light-emitting layer containing a blue or a blue-green fluorescent light emitting material that contains a dialkyl-gallium moiety coordinated to a bidentate nitrogen bonding chelating ligand to form a gallium containing 6-membered heteroatom ring. The invention also provides a display or area lighting device including the OLED device, a process for emitting light, and a dialkyl-gallium chelate complex. The device provides unexpected and useful light emissions in the blue and green regions of the visible spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Inventor: Tommie Royster
  • Publication number: 20150014654
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a blue or a blue-green fluorescent light emitting material that is comprised of a dialkyl-gallium moiety coordinated to a bidentate nitrogen bonding chelating ligand to form a gallium containing 6-membered heteroatom ring. The invention also provides a display or area lighting device including the OLED device, a process for emitting light, and a dialkyl-gallium chelate complex. The device provides unexpected and useful light emissions in the blue and green regions of the visible spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Tommie Royster
  • Publication number: 20070207342
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises an anode, a light emitting layer, a first layer, a second layer contiguous to the first layer, and a cathode, in that order. The first layer includes a first complex comprising gallium and the second layer includes a second complex also comprising gallium and wherein the second complex has a more negative LUMO than the first complex. Such materials can provide an improvement in one or more of luminance, drive voltage, and stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Tommie Royster, Michele Ricks
  • Publication number: 20070166566
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode and anode and having therebetween a light-emitting layer, wherein there is located between the cathode and the light-emitting layer a further layer, not contiguous to the light-emitting layer, containing a metal complex of 3 bidentate ligands having Formula (1): wherein: each Za and each Zb is independently selected and each represents the atoms necessary to complete an unsaturated ring; Za and Zb are directly bonded to one another provided Za and Zb may be further linked together to form a fused ring system; and wherein the further layer also comprises an alkali metal material. Materials of the invention provide offer good luminance and reduced drive voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Tommie Royster, Denis Kondakov
  • Publication number: 20070134514
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, and has therebetween a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent emitter and a host comprising a first aluminum or gallium complex containing at least one 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)pyridine ligand and at least one phenoxy ligand, wherein the phenoxy ligand is substituted by an amine or there is further present adjacent to the light-emitting layer on the cathode side a layer containing a second aluminum or gallium complex containing at least one 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)pyridine ligand and at least one phenoxy ligand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 14, 2007
    Inventors: Denis Kondakov, Tommie Royster, Christopher Brown
  • Publication number: 20070003786
    Abstract: An OLED device comprises a cathode, an anode, a light-emitting layer, and, between the cathode and the light emitting layer, a non-emitting layer containing a metal complex of ā€œnā€ bidentate ligands having Formula (1): wherein: M represents Ga, Al, Be, or Mg; n is 3 in the case of Ga or Al and 2 in the case of Be or Mg; and each Za and each Zb is independently selected and each represents the atoms necessary to complete an unsaturated ring; za and Zb are directly bonded to one another provided Za and Zb may be further linked together to form a fused ring system; provided that the light emitting layer is substantially free of said metal complex present in the non-emitting layer. Such a device exhibits improved luminous efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventor: Tommie Royster
  • Publication number: 20050136286
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a light emitting phosphorescent material that contains an organometallic complex comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Re, Ru, and Os that is coordinated to a neutral or negatively-charged ligand group through the ? electrons of the ligand with a hapticity greater than 2. The device provides useful light emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: June 23, 2005
    Inventors: Tommie Royster, David Giesen, Adam Freeman
  • Publication number: 20050123790
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electroluminescent device comprising a light-emitting layer containing a light emitting phosphorescent material that contains an organometallic complex comprising a metal selected from the group consisting of Mo, W, Re, Ru, and Os that is coordinated to a neutral or negatively-charged ligand group through the ? electrons of the ligand with a hapticity greater than 2. The device provides useful light emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Tommie Royster, David Giesen, Adam Freeman