Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Iwakuma

Toshihiro Iwakuma 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: 9419231
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device including two or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer between an anode and a cathode, the emitting layer including at least one compound represented by the following formula (1), and an organic thin film layer that is in contact with the emitting layer on the cathode side comprising at least one benzimidazole compound represented by the following formula (A):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Yoshida, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Hideaki Nagashima, Ryohei Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20160163996
    Abstract: A compound that includes a structure including two or more structures represented by the following formula (1) in the same molecule and in which at least two of the structures represented by the formula (1) are directly bonded to each other by a single bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei YOSHIDA, Toshihiro IWAKUMA, Ryohei HASHIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160118602
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device, which shows high luminous efficiency, is free of any pixel defect, and has a long lifetime, and a material for an organic electroluminescence device for realizing the device. The material for an organic electroluminescence device is a compound having a ?-conjugated heteroacene skeleton crosslinked with a carbon atom, nitrogen atom, oxygen atom, or sulfur atom. The organic electroluminescence device has one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kato, Masaki Numata, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9266851
    Abstract: A fluorene-containing aromatic compound represented by a formula (1) below. In the formula (1): Nr1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic nitrogen-containing aromatic ring having 2 to 5 ring carbon atoms, or a bicyclic nitrogen-containing aromatic ring having 2 to 9 ring carbon atoms; Ar represents an aromatic ring and the like; Fl1 and Fl2 represent a fluorenyl group; and Cz1 and Cz2 represent a carbazolyl group. A compound represented by a formula (2) below is omitted from the fluorene-containing aromatic compound represented by the formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Yoshida, Kazuki Nishimura, Mitsunori Ito, Yuichiro Kawamura, Toshinari Ogiwara, Toshihiro Iwakuma
  • Publication number: 20160013419
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei YOSHIDA, Toshihiro IWAKUMA, Ryohei HASHIMOTO
  • Patent number: 9209410
    Abstract: A material for organic electroluminescence devices of the invention which is for use in combination with at least one phosphorescent metal complex has a specific heterocyclic structure. The material for organic electroluminescence devices is used as a host material or a hole transporting material. An organic electroluminescence device having an anode, a cathode and an organic thin film layer having one or more layers which is interposed between the anode and cathode, in which at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic electroluminescence devices, has a high emitting efficiency, causes little pixel defects, is excellent in heat resistance, and shows a long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwakuma, Jun Endo, Masaki Numata, Kenichi Fukuoka
  • Patent number: 9126887
    Abstract: A material for organic electroluminescent devices including a 2,7-disubstituted naphthalene ring in its molecule of formulas (1) and (2): and an organic electroluminescent device including an organic thin film layer having one or more layers between a cathode and an anode. An organic electroluminescence device having the organic thin film layer which includes the material for organic electroluminescent devices and at least one kind of phosphorescent emitting materials has long lifetime and high current efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwakuma, Yoriyuki Takashima, Toshinari Ogiwara
  • Publication number: 20150243905
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination comprising one or more biscarbazole derivative compounds as the phosphorescent host material in combination with a green phosphorescent dopant material in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compounds are represented by a formula (1A) or (1B) below; where A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; A2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; X1 and X2 each are a linking group; Y1 to Y4 each represent a substituent; p and q represent an integer of 1 to 4; and r and s represent an integer of 1 to 3; and the green phosphorescent dopant material is a phosphorescent organometallic complex having a chemical structure represented by LL?L?M wherein M is a metal that forms octa
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicants: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma
  • Patent number: 9112171
    Abstract: The present invention provides an OLED in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers is provided between a cathode and an anode, where the organic thin film layer comprises at least one light emitting layer, and the at least one light emitting layer comprises (a) a host material represented by the following Formula (1): Ra—Ar1—Ar2—Rb (1) where Ar1, Ar2, Ra and Rb represent a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring or a condensed aromatic hydrocarbon group selected from a substituted or unsubstituted naphthalene ring, chrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted fluoranthene ring, triphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted phenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzophenanthrene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzotriphenylene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted benzochrysene ring, a substituted or unsubstituted picene ring and a substituted or unsubstituted benzofluoranthene ring; and (b) at l
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: Universal Display Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Brian D'Andrade, Julia J. Brown, Michael S. Weaver, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Chishio Hosokawa, Masahiro Kawamura, Mitsunori Ito
  • Patent number: 9082995
    Abstract: An organic EL device (1) includes an anode (3), a cathode (4) and an organic thin-film layer (5) provided between the anode (3) and the cathode (4). The organic thin-film layer (5) includes a single-layered mixed-color emitting layer (51) for providing mixed-color emission. The mixed-color emitting layer (51) contains a host, a fluorescent dopant for blue fluorescent emission and a phosphorescent dopant for red or green phosphorescent emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Chishio Hosokawa, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Tetsuya Inoue
  • Publication number: 20150194621
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination of one or more biscarbazole derivative compounds as the phosphorescent host material in combination with an organometallic phosphorescent material as a dopant in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compounds are represented by a formula (1A) or (2A) below: (1A), (2A) where A1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; A2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 ring carbon atoms, or substituted or unsubstituted nitrogen-containing heterocyclic group having 1 to 30 ring carbon atoms; Xi and X2 each are a linking group; Y1 to Y4 each represent a substituent; p and q represent an integer of 1 to 4; and r and s represent an integer of 1 to 3; and the organometallic phosphorescent material is a compound having a substituted chemical structure represented by the formula (4A): where each R is indepe
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicants: Universal Display Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown
  • Publication number: 20150194622
    Abstract: The organic electroluminescence device utilizes a novel combination of a biscarbazole derivative compound as a phospherescent host materials and an orgaphosphorescent material as a red phosphorescent dopant material in the light emitting region of the device, where the biscarbazole derivative compound is represented by a formula (1); wherein the red phosphorescent dopant material is a phosphorescent organometallic complex having a substituted chemical structure represented by one of the partial chemical structures represented by a formulas (D1), (D2) and (D3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicants: UNIVERSAL DISPLAY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma
  • Publication number: 20150171334
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device, which shows high luminous efficiency, is free of any pixel defect, and has a long lifetime, and a material for an organic electroluminescence device for realizing the device. The material for an organic electroluminescence device is a compound having a ?-conjugated heteroacene skeleton crosslinked with a carbon atom, nitrogen atom, oxygen atom, or sulfur atom. The organic electroluminescence device has one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO.,LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki KATO, Masaki NUMATA, Kazuki NISHIMURA, Toshihiro IWAKUMA, Chishio HOSOKAWA
  • Patent number: 9056870
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device, which shows high luminous efficiency, is free of any pixel defect, and has a long lifetime, and a material for an organic electroluminescence device for realizing the device. The material for an organic electroluminescence device is a compound having a ?-conjugated heteroacene skeleton crosslinked with a carbon atom, nitrogen atom, oxygen atom, or sulfur atom. The organic electroluminescence device has one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kato, Masaki Numata, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Patent number: 9054319
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and an organic thin-film layer interposed between the anode and the cathode. The organic thin-film layer includes a phosphorescent-emitting layer containing a host and a phosphorescent dopant, and an electron transporting layer that is provided closer to the cathode than the phosphorescent-emitting layer. The host contains a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic fused aromatic skeleton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: IDEMITSU KOSAN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kenichi Fukuoka, Chishio Hosokawa, Jun Endo, Nobuhiro Yabunouchi, Hiroshi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 8940412
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device and a material for producing the organic electroluminescence device. The organic electroluminescence device includes an organic thin film layer between a cathode and an anode, the organic thin film layer including one or more layers, in which the organic thin film layer includes one or more light emitting layers and at least one of the light emitting layers includes a phosphorescent material and a host material. The host material has an essential structure in which a naphthalene ring is bonded to a fluorene skeleton, dibenzofuran skeleton, or dibenzothiophene skeleton. The organic electroluminescence device is a phosphorescent device having high efficiency and long lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoriyuki Takashima, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Toshinari Ogiwara, Chishio Hosokawa, Mitsunori Ito
  • Patent number: 8941099
    Abstract: The present invention provides an OLED in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers between a cathode and an anode, wherein the organic thin film layer comprises at least one organic light emitting layer, wherein at least one light emitting layer comprises at least one host material and at least one phosphorescent emitter material, wherein the host material comprises a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon compound having the chemical structure represented by the formula (A-I): formula (A-1) wherein R1 and R2 each represent independently a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group having from 1 to about 5 carbon atoms; Ar1 represents a divalent residue of a benzene ring, a naphthalene ring, a chrysene ring, a phenanthrene ring, a benzophenanthrene ring, a dibenzophenanthrene ring, a benzo[a]triphenylene ring, a benzochrysene ring, a fluoranthene ring, a benzo[b]fluoranthene ring or picene ring; and Ar2 represents a monovalent residue of a naphthalene ring, a chrysene ring,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: Universal Display Corporation, Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yamamoto, Michael S. Weaver, Julia J. Brown, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Chishio Hosokawa, Toshinari Ogiwara
  • Patent number: 8927118
    Abstract: Provided are an organic electroluminescence device, which shows high luminous efficiency, is free of any pixel defect, and has a long lifetime, and a material for an organic electroluminescence device for realizing the device. The material for an organic electroluminescence device is a compound having a n-conjugated heteroacene skeleton crosslinked with a carbon atom, nitrogen atom, oxygen atom, or sulfur atom. The organic electroluminescence device has one or more organic thin film layers including a light emitting layer between a cathode and an anode, and at least one layer of the organic thin film layers contains the material for an organic electroluminescence device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Kato, Masaki Numata, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma, Chishio Hosokawa
  • Publication number: 20140367667
    Abstract: A compound represented by the following formula (1):
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Iwakuma, Kazuki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 8912531
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device including an emitting layer, an electron-injecting controlling layer and an electron-transporting layer between an anode and a cathode in sequential order from the anode, bonding one to another, the emitting layer including a host material and a dopant, the ionization potential (Ips) of the main material forming the electron-injecting controlling layer and the ionization potential (Iph) of the host material of the emitting layer satisfying the following relationship (i), the electron mobility of the electron-transporting material forming the electron-transporting layer being 10?5 cm2/Vs or more at the electric field intensity of 400 to 500 (V/cm)1/2, and the affinity level (Af1) of the host material of the emitting layer, the affinity level (Af2) of the main material forming the electron-injecting controlling layer, and the affinity level (Af3) of the electron-transporting material forming the electron-transporting layer satisfying the following relationships (ii) and (iii
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshinari Ogiwara, Kazuki Nishimura, Toshihiro Iwakuma