Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Otake

Toshihiro Otake 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).

  • Publication number: 20070291204
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device including a first substrate and a second substrate which oppose each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; light-reflecting films selectively provided to the second substrate and reflecting incident light from the first substrate side; and light-emitting layers emitting light toward the second substrate and being disposed at the opposite side of the liquid crystal layer with respect to the first substrate in such positions corresponding to regions where the light-reflecting films of the second substrate are not disposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 20, 2007
    Applicant: EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshihiro OTAKE
  • Patent number: 7255981
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflective film including a base and a reflective layer, in which a plurality of concave portions or convex portions formed on the surface of the base are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or a whole screen unit, are formed using a mask in which light transmissive or non-transmissive portions are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or the whole screen unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 7242447
    Abstract: A color filter substrate is provided that includes a base plate, a resin layer disposed on the base plate, a reflective layer disposed on the resin layer and including a reflective portion and an transmissive portion, and a colored layer disposed on the reflective layer. An area of the resin layer corresponding to at least a portion of the transmissive portion is colored with the same color as the colored layer disposed in correspondence with the transmissive portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Keiji Takizawa, Toshihiro Otake
  • Publication number: 20070121041
    Abstract: A color filter substrate is provided that includes a base plate, a resin layer disposed on the base plate, a reflective layer disposed on the resin layer and including a reflective portion and an transmissive portion, and a colored layer disposed on the reflective layer. An area of the resin layer corresponding to at least a portion of the transmissive portion is colored with the same color as the colored layer disposed in correspondence with the transmissive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoyuki NAKANO, Keiji TAKIZAWA, Toshihiro OTAKE
  • Patent number: 7224505
    Abstract: A manufacturing process of an electro-optical apparatus substrate is provided wherein a substrate is coated with a photosensitive resin. A first exposure process is executed with a first reticle to form an uneven portion on the substrate. Subsequently, a second exposure process is executed with a second reticle to remove all the photosensitive resin on portions other than the uneven portion. After the second exposure process, the substrate is developed so as to form an underlying film having an uneven portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Tomohiko Kojima, Hideki Kaneko, Toshinori Uehara, Tomoyuki Nakano, Keiji Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20070076146
    Abstract: A liquid crystal device includes a pair of substrates, a liquid crystal layer provided between the substrates, and a plurality of sub-pixels each having a transmissive display region and a reflective display region. One of the substrates includes switching elements corresponding to the sub-pixels, lines connected to the switching elements, and an insulating film provided on the switching elements and the lines. The insulating film includes first recesses provided in the transmissive display regions, and second recesses provided along boundaries between the adjoining sub-pixels. At least a part of the insulating film other than the first and second recesses planarly overlaps with the reflective display regions. The thickness of the liquid crystal layer is smaller in the reflective display regions than in the transmissive display regions having the first recesses. The depth of the second recesses is smaller than the depth of the first recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: SANYO EPSON IMAGING DEVICES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Norihito Harada, Kimitaka Kamijo, Katsuhiro Imai, Toshihiro Otake
  • Patent number: 7123327
    Abstract: A substrate for an electro-optical device according to the present invention comprises a base layer and a reflective film deposited on the substrate, a plurality of pixel regions including a portion of the base layer and the reflective film, wherein a transmissive opening where the reflective film is not formed and a base opening where the base layer is not formed are provided in each pixel region, and wherein the base opening is arranged in a position overlapped with the transmissive opening in plan view and extends continuously between the adjacent pixel regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Toshihiro Otake
  • Patent number: 7106495
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflection film in which the heights of a plurality of convex portions or the depths of concave portions formed on a base material are specified to be substantially the same. The two-dimensional shapes of the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are specified to be the two-dimensional shapes of independent circles and polygons, or of either of them. In addition, the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are arranged in the direction of the plane on a random basis. The substrate is formed using a mask in which light transmission portions or light non-transmission portions are formed in units of dots, the number thereof being smaller than the number of dot regions. The dots are arranged irregularly in each of the units, and a plurality of units are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 7088404
    Abstract: A substrate is provided for an electro-optical device comprising a substrate, a base layer formed on the substrate and having a plurality of concave portions or convex portions on the surface thereof, and a reflecting layer formed on the base layer and having light reflecting property, wherein a plurality of concave portions or convex portions is formed so as not to extend to the edge of the base layer. According to this construction, a surface provided with concavo-convex portions is spaced apart from the edge of the base layer. Therefore, the sidewall surface that forms the edge is substantially flat. As a result, the base layer does not peel from the substrate when developing the photosensitive material which becomes the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Makoto Mizuta, Mutsumi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 7085036
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflection film in which the heights of a plurality of convex portions or the depths of concave portions formed on a base material are specified to be substantially the same. The two-dimensional shapes of the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are specified to be the two-dimensional shapes of independent circles and polygons, or of either of them. In addition, the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are arranged in the direction of the plane on a random basis. The substrate is formed using a mask in which light transmission portions or light non-transmission portions are formed in units of dots, the number thereof being smaller than the number of dot regions. The dots are arranged irregularly in each of the units, and a plurality of units are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20060147844
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflective film including a base and a reflective layer, in which a plurality of concave portions or convex portions formed on the surface of the base are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or a whole screen unit, are formed using a mask in which light transmissive or non-transmissive portions are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or the whole screen unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 7060396
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflective film including a base and a reflective layer, in which a plurality of concave portions or convex portions formed on the surface of the base are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or a whole screen unit, are formed using a mask in which light transmissive or non-transmissive portions are randomly arranged in the plane direction in 100 to 2,000 RGB dot units or the whole screen unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 7008807
    Abstract: A photosensitive resin applied onto a substrate is exposed using a mask. In this exposure step, by appropriately setting the size of each light transmitting portion formed in the mask and an exposure gap, an exposure intensity profile on a surface of a photosensitive resin is formed so as to have an increasing and decreasing curve along the surface thereof. When the exposure is performed in accordance with the exposure intensity profile, followed by development, a resin layer having surface irregularities is formed. Subsequently, a reflection layer made of a metal thin film or the like is formed on this resin layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo
  • Patent number: 6995898
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflecting film in which the depths of a plurality of concave portions formed on the surface of the base or the heights of a plurality of convex portions formed on the surface of the base are substantially equal, the planar shapes of the plurality of concave portions or the convex portions are overlapped circles and overlapped polygons, or any one of the aforesaid circles and polygons, and a plurality of concave portions or convex portions are randomly arranged over a plane, the substrate with the light reflecting film being prepared by using a mask comprising light-transmitting parts or non-light-transmitting parts formed by a plurality of dots less than the number of the dot regions as one unit, in which the light-transmitting parts or the non-light-transmitting parts are randomly arranged in the unit, and a plurality of the one unit is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20060007530
    Abstract: A substrate is provided with a light reflection film in which the heights of a plurality of convex portions or the depths of concave portions formed on a base material are specified to be substantially the same. The two-dimensional shapes of the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are specified to be the two-dimensional shapes of independent circles and polygons, or of either of them. In addition, the plurality of convex portions or concave portions are arranged in the direction of the plane on a random basis. The substrate is formed using a mask in which light transmission portions or light non-transmission portions are formed in units of dots, the number thereof being smaller than the number of dot regions. The dots are arranged irregularly in each of the units, and a plurality of units are included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Patent number: 6985196
    Abstract: A light reflecting film is formed such that a plurality of concave portions or convex portions formed on a base are aligned randomly over a plane by using a mask in which the positions of light-transmitting parts or non-light-transmitting parts are allocated according to a random function, and the light-transmitting parts or non-light-transmitting parts are aligned randomly over a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Mutsumi Matsuo, Tadashi Tsuyuki
  • Publication number: 20050130048
    Abstract: A photomask is used for an exposure process for roughening the surface of a process region of a film. The photomask includes a first region and a second region. The first region serves as a transmissive portion that transmits light traveling toward the periphery of the process region. The second region includes a plurality of dot regions each having a light-shielding portion for shielding the light traveling toward the process region and a semitransmissive portion that transmits the light traveling toward the process region in a region other than the dot regions, the semitransmissive portion transmitting the light at a lower transmittance than that of the transmissive portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Publication date: June 16, 2005
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Nakano, Hideki Kaneko, Toshihiro Otake, Keiji Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20050122567
    Abstract: A manufacturing process of an electro-optical apparatus substrate is provided wherein a substrate is coated with a photosensitive resin. A first exposure process is executed with a first reticle to form an uneven portion on the substrate. Subsequently, a second exposure process is executed with a second reticle to remove all the photosensitive resin on portions other than the uneven portion. After the second exposure process, the substrate is developed so as to form an underlying film having an uneven portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Toshihiro Otake, Tomohiko Kojima, Hideki Kaneko, Toshinori Uehara, Tomoyuki Nakano, Keiji Takizawa
  • Publication number: 20050062912
    Abstract: A substrate for an electro-optical device according to the present invention comprises a base layer and a reflective film deposited on the substrate, a plurality of pixel regions including a portion of the base layer and the reflective film, wherein a transmissive opening where the reflective film is not formed and a base opening where the base layer is not formed are provided in each pixel region, and wherein the base opening is arranged in a position overlapped with the transmissive opening in plan view and extends continuously between the adjacent pixel regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Toshihiro Otake
  • Patent number: 6867831
    Abstract: A substrate for an electrooptical device includes a base 1 having a plurality of display dots D, an underlayer 4 formed on the base 1, a reflective layer 2 formed on the underlayer 4, and color layers 3r, 3g, and 3b formed on the reflective layer 2. The underlayer 4 is provided at regions corresponding to the display dots D, but is not provided at regions between the display dots D. In addition, concave areas are provided at regions between the display dots D, and a light-shielding layer 3k is provided to fill the concave areas. Accordingly, the light-shielding layer 3k, and the-color layers 3r, 3g, and 3b are level with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keiji Takizawa, Yoshihiro Otagiri, Tomoyuki Nakano, Hideki Kaneko, Mutsumi Matsuo, Toshihiro Otake