Patents by Inventor Toru Tanabe
Toru Tanabe 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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Publication number: 20240128081Abstract: A film forming method includes preparing a substrate having an amorphous silicon film on a surface thereof, diffusing nickel into the amorphous silicon film by supplying a nickel source gas to the amorphous silicon film, and forming a polycrystalline silicon film by heating the amorphous silicon film, and crystallizing the amorphous silicon film by metal-induced lateral crystallization using the nickel diffused in the amorphous silicon film as a nucleus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Yoshihiro TAKEZAWA, Toru KANAZAWA, Yosuke WATANABE, Tatsuya MIYAHARA, Yuki TANABE, Daisuke SUZUKI, Masahisa WATANABE, Keisuke SUZUKI, Tuhin Shuvra Basu
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Patent number: 10901255Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
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Publication number: 20200216253Abstract: It is an object to simply control an internal temperature of each individual container. A container comprises a cover portion; a box body including; a containing space formed therein; and an opening surface openable and closable by the cover portion; and a recording device including: a storage unit storing measurement information containing an internal temperature of the containing space and time when measuring the temperature; and a communication unit transmitting the measurement information to an external device, the recording device being provided in the cover portion, or the box body, or within the containing space, outside surfaces of the cover portion and the box body being covered with a metallic material to block communications between the communication unit and the external device, the metallic material used blocking of the communications between the communication unit and the external device being cancelled upon opening the cover portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Toru TANABE, Nobuya HORIKOSHI
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Publication number: 20200218318Abstract: It is an object to simply control an internal temperature of each individual container. A temperature control apparatus comprises a storage unit storing measurement information containing temperatures measured in a predetermined space and measurement time of the temperature; and a temperature control unit extracting a minimum temperature defined as a lowest temperature from the temperatures contained in the measurement information, stored in the storage unit, of the predetermined space, and to determine, based on the minimum temperature, a temperature zone to be kept in the predetermined space from within a plurality of temperature zones being different from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Toru TANABE, Richard KOIKE
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Publication number: 20200216254Abstract: It is an object to simply control a temperature of a predetermined space. A temperature control apparatus comprises a storage unit storing measurement information containing temperatures measured in a containing space of a container to be transported, and measurement time of each temperature; and a temperature control unit determining time when the temperature contained in the measurement information, stored in the storage unit, of the containing space reaches for the first time a temperature lower than an upper limit value of a temperature zone to be kept in the containing space, as start time of transporting the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2019Publication date: July 9, 2020Inventors: Toru TANABE, Richard KOIKE
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Patent number: 10317717Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
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Publication number: 20180266896Abstract: A temperature management apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit to acquire an image containing a portion coated with a first thermo-paint with its color changing based on a first cumulative temperature as a product of a temperature difference between a predetermined first temperature and an ambient temperature when the ambient temperature exceeds the first temperature and time for which the ambient temperature exceeds the first temperature; a storage unit to store first data exhibiting a correspondence relationship between the color of the first thermo-paint and the first cumulative temperature; and an arithmetic unit to compute the first cumulative temperature corresponding to the color of the first thermo-paint, based on the color of the first thermo-paint contained in the image and the first data, wherein the first thermo-paint is coated directly or indirectly over a measurement object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Takashi SAEKI, Toru TANABE
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Publication number: 20180164625Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Toru TANABE, Takahiro FUKUTOME, Koji MORIYA, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Masakatsu OHNO
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Patent number: 9891459Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
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Publication number: 20170160576Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Toru TANABE, Takahiro FUKUTOME, Koji MORIYA, Daisuke KUROSAKI, Masakatsu OHNO
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Patent number: 9581849Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., LTD.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
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Publication number: 20160315202Abstract: An object is, in a structure where switch circuits in a signal line driver circuit is placed over the same substrate as a pixel portion, to reduce the size of transistors in the switch circuits and to reduce load in the circuits during charging and discharging of signal lines due to the supply of data. A display device is provided which includes a pixel portion receiving a video signal, and a signal line driver circuit including a switch circuit portion configured to control output of the video signal to the pixel portion. The switch circuit portion includes a transistor over an insulating substrate. The transistor has a field-effect mobility of at least 80 cm2/Vs or more. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Jun KOYAMA, Toru TANABE
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Patent number: 9417475Abstract: A display device having a novel structure that can improve reliability is provided. It lowers reliability to form a structure by using a photomask, such as a color filter on a rear side of a substrate. With this display device, a transistor and the color filter is provided over a first substrate, a touch sensor is provided on a first surface of a second substrate, and the structure is not provided on a second surface of the second substrate. Consequently, the display device with the touch sensor can perform high reliability.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro Fukutome, Toru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9397222Abstract: An object is, in a structure where switch circuits in a signal line driver circuit is placed over the same substrate as a pixel portion, to reduce the size of transistors in the switch circuits and to reduce load in the circuits during charging and discharging of signal lines due to the supply of data. A display device is provided which includes a pixel portion receiving a video signal, and a signal line driver circuit including a switch circuit portion configured to control output of the video signal to the pixel portion. The switch circuit portion includes a transistor over an insulating substrate. The transistor has a field-effect mobility of at least 80 cm2/Vs or more. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2012Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Koyama, Toru Tanabe
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Patent number: 9111483Abstract: To provide a display device with high image quality and fewer terminals. The present invention is made with a focus on the positional relation between a serial-parallel conversion circuit and an external connection terminal for supplying a serial signal to the serial-parallel conversion circuit. The structure conceived is such that a serial-parallel conversion circuit and an external connection terminal for supplying a serial signal to the serial-parallel conversion circuit are provided close to each other so that an RC load between the serial-parallel conversion circuit and the external connection terminal is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyuki Miyake, Kouhei Toyotaka, Kazunori Watanabe, Toru Tanabe, Makoto Kaneyasu, Masashi Fujita
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Patent number: 8866510Abstract: When a semiconductor device is provided with an inverter comprising a transistor having a first gate and a second gate, the semiconductor device does not require a circuit for generating a potential to be input to the second gate of the transistor and has a small number of wirings. Moreover, a semiconductor device having high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of stages of circuits each provided with two inverter circuits in parallel. Two inverter circuits in a given stage output respective signals of opposite polarities, which is utilized for interchanging signals output from inverter circuits in the previous stage. Thus, an inverted signal is input to the second gate of the transistor included in each of two inverter circuits in the subsequent stage.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Hiroyuki Miyake
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Publication number: 20140285732Abstract: A liquid crystal display device that is not influenced by a noise in obtaining positional information can be provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate provided with a pixel electrode and a common electrode with a first insulating film interposed therebetween. The pixel electrode and the common electrode partly overlap with each other. The liquid crystal display device further includes a second substrate provided with a pair of electrodes, a resin film covering the pair of electrodes, and a conductive film on the resin film. The pair of electrodes partly overlap with each other with a second insulating film interposed therebetween. The liquid crystal display device further includes a liquid crystal layer between the conductive film on the second substrate side and the pixel electrode and the common electrode on the first substrate side. A predetermined potential is supplied to the conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Takahiro Fukutome, Koji Moriya, Daisuke Kurosaki, Masakatsu Ohno
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Publication number: 20140240617Abstract: A display device having a novel structure that can improve reliability is provided. It lowers reliability to form a structure by using a photomask, such as a color filter on a rear side of a substrate. With this display device, a transistor and the color filter is provided over a first substrate, a touch sensor is provided on a first surface of a second substrate, and the structure is not provided on a second surface of the second substrate. Consequently, the display device with the touch sensor can perform high reliability.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiro FUKUTOME, Toru TANABE
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Publication number: 20140118378Abstract: A novel method for driving a display device in which generation of flickers caused by rewriting pixels is reduced and which has a high aperture ratio is provided. The driving method includes a first step of determining whether displayed still image data is two-valued still image data or multivalued still image data, and a second step of performing display by rewriting (refreshing) the two-valued still image data with lower frequency than the multivalued still image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Koyama, Yuji Iwaki, Hiroyuki Miyake, Toru Tanabe
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Publication number: 20130292669Abstract: When a semiconductor device is provided with an inverter comprising a transistor having a first gate and a second gate, the semiconductor device does not require a circuit for generating a potential to be input to the second gate of the transistor and has a small number of wirings. Moreover, a semiconductor device having high reliability is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of stages of circuits each provided with two inverter circuits in parallel. Two inverter circuits in a given stage output respective signals of opposite polarities, which is utilized for interchanging signals output from inverter circuits in the previous stage. Thus, an inverted signal is input to the second gate of the transistor included in each of two inverter circuits in the subsequent stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.Inventors: Toru TANABE, Hiroyuki Miyake