Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Sato

Toshihiro Sato 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: 10263200
    Abstract: A display module includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of pixels each located on the insulating substrate and including a light-emitting element layer. The insulating substrate includes a display area where the plurality of pixels are disposed, a picture-frame area outside the display area, an outer area that is in contact with an opposite side of the picture-frame area from the display area, and a plurality of terminals located on the outer area and arranged in a direction. The outer area includes a narrowed portion whose length in the direction is shorter than a length of the display area in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Odaka, Toshihiro Sato, Masamitsu Furuie
  • Patent number: 10263047
    Abstract: A display device includes plural unit areas each of which includes low definition pixels as sub-pixels larger than a specified standard and high definition pixels as sub-pixels smaller than the specified standard and which are regularly arranged. The low definition pixels include a blue pixel and a red pixel, and the high definition pixels include a white pixel and a green pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190109182
    Abstract: Organic EL display module including a pixel disposed in respective intersections between a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines, which lines are aligned in a matrix, and a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, wherein the pixel includes an active device selected by the scanning line, a data storage device that stores a data signal that is supplied from the data line by control of the active device, and an organic light emitting device that emits light by the electric current supplied by the current supply line according to the data signal stored in the data storage device, wherein the data storage device provides a lower electrode, an insulating layer and an upper electrode, and wherein the lower electrode has a same layer with a channel layer of the active device and the upper electrode is made of a metal material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Yoshiyuki KANEKO, Yoshiro MIKAMI, Takayuki OUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190109296
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device with a touch sensor including: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; an organic EL element layer arranged above the first substrate; a first sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the organic EL element layer, covering the organic EL element layer, and including a first inorganic layer; plural first detection electrodes extending in one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the first sealing film; a second sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the first detection electrodes, and including a second inorganic layer; plural second detection electrodes extending in another direction different from the one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the second sealing film; and a touch sensor control unit control ling a potential to detect a touch with a display surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Ryoichi Ito
  • Patent number: 10256285
    Abstract: A display device includes a display portion that includes a plurality of pixels; common potential supply main wiring that is disposed so as to surround the display portion on an outside of the display portion; a common potential wiring layer that extends to a gap region between the plurality of pixels in the display portion and is electrically connected to the common potential supply main wiring; an organic film that is disposed to cover the plurality of pixels; and a common electrode film that covers the display portion and the common potential supply main wiring, and is disposed to be in contact with the common potential supply main wiring. The common potential wiring layer has a plurality of contact regions in the gap region and the common electrode film is in contact with the plurality of contact regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuko Matsumoto, Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190103451
    Abstract: A display device including a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region above a substrate, each of the plurality of first electrodes being in common with n (n is an integer of 2 or more number of light emitting elements, a bank having a recess part and partitioning the n number of light emitting elements with the recess part as a boundary in each of the plurality of first electrodes, a light emitting layer arranged above the plurality of first electrodes throughout the display region, and n groups of second electrodes arranged above the light emitting layer and electrically separated with the recess part as a boundary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Yasukazu Kimura, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10249650
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel including a thin film transistor, and an under layer below the thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes a first gate electrode, a semiconductor layer and a second gate electrode. The semiconductor layer includes a channel region that overlaps at least one of the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode in a plan view. The channel region curves in a thickness direction of the semiconductor layer. The first gate electrode includes a first edge located on the side of an edge of the channel region in a direction of a channel length. The second gate electrode includes a second edge located on the side of the edge of the channel region. The position of the first edge is different from the position of the second edge in the direction of the channel length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10243032
    Abstract: A selection transistor and a light-emitting transistor are formed in a pixel. The selection transistor includes a gate electrode connected to a scan line, a first source/drain electrode connected to a signal line, and a second source/drain electrode. The light-emitting transistor includes a gate electrode connected to the second source/drain electrode of the selection transistor, a first electrode connected to a first line, a second electrode connected to a second line, and a channel layer including quantum dots. The light-emitting transistor controls the quantum dots to emit light by a carrier flowing through the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10242621
    Abstract: A display module including a substrate having a plurality of pixels, a data line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line, and a gate driving circuit thereon. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device, a first thin film transistor connected to the data line that supplies the data signal, a second thin film transistor connected to the current supply line, and a capacitor. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer connected to the second thin film transistor, an organic layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Yoshiyuki Kaneko
  • Patent number: 10230061
    Abstract: A display module includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of pixels each located on the insulating substrate and including a light-emitting element layer. The insulating substrate includes a display area where the plurality of pixels are disposed, a picture-frame area outside the display area, an outer area that is in contact with an opposite side of the picture-frame area from the display area, and a plurality of terminals located on the outer area and arranged in a direction. The outer area includes a narrowed portion whose length in the direction is shorter than a length of the display area in the direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Odaka, Toshihiro Sato, Masamitsu Furuie
  • Publication number: 20190067400
    Abstract: A display device includes two or more transistors in one pixel, and the two or more transistors include a first transistor of which a channel semiconductor layer is polycrystalline silicon, and a second transistor of which a channel semiconductor layer is an oxide semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Toshihiro SATO
  • Publication number: 20190058154
    Abstract: A display device includes: a resin layer on the circuit layer including a groove surrounding and separating a display area; light-emitting elements on an upper surface of the resin layer so as to emit light with luminances controlled by the currents; a sealing layer covering the light-emitting elements; a second substrate above the sealing layer; a sealing material provided between the sealing layer and the second substrate so as to surround the display area and the groove; and a filling layer surrounded by the sealing material between the sealing layer and the second substrate. The groove is formed along a line describing a shape that is inscribed in a rectangle and not in contact with corners of the rectangle as viewed in a direction vertical to the upper surface of the resin layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Takayasu SUZUKI, Toshihiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10211269
    Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of emitting elements corresponding to a plurality of pixels. The emitting element includes a lower electrode, an upper electrode having a light-transmitting property, and a light-emitting layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The lower electrode includes a flat portion and an inclined portion that is inclined obliquely upward and outward from the central area of the flat portion. Both of the flat portion and the inclined portion include a reflective surface respectively. The reflective surface of the flat portion has a light reflectance lower than that of the reflective surface of the inclined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yuya Shirahata, Masakazu Gunji, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 10205113
    Abstract: In an organic EL device, the light emission efficiency by a TADF mechanism is to be improved with an emissive layer structure that can be easily formed. An OLED has at least an emissive layer between an upper electrode and a lower electrode. The emissive layer includes: a host layer including a host material; an assistant dopant layer which is a layer adjacent to the host layer and where an assistant dopant made of a thermally activated delayed fluorescence material and the host material are intermingled within a plane; and a light-emitting dopant layer which is a layer adjacent to the assistant dopant layer and where a light-emitting dopant made of a fluorescent material emitting light by being excited by the assistant dopant and the host material are intermingled within a plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Tanaka, Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190043933
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate having a plurality of transmissive regions aligned in a first direction and a second direction, a plurality of first wiring lines on the substrate extending in the first direction, a plurality of second wiring lines on the substrate extending in the second direction, and a plurality of light emitting sections disposed on the substrate. Each of the transmissive regions is surrounded by the first and second wiring lines. The light emitting sections include a first light emitting section and a second light emitting section. At least part of the first light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the first wiring lines. At least part of the second light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the second wiring lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventor: Toshihiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10192941
    Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate having flexibility and including pixels arranged in matrix form in a first direction and a second direction, the first direction and second direction mutually intersecting each other, a transistor layer arranged above the first substrate and including at least one transistor arranged in each of the pixels, an inorganic insulation film formed continuously across the pixels in the second direction, and a plurality of aperture parts extending in the second direction and arranged between two transistors arranged in two of the plurality of pixels adjacent in the first direction, a plurality of first groups of wiring extending in the first direction and connected to each of the pixels arranged in the first direction, and a plurality of second groups of wiring extending in the second direction and connected to each of the pixels arranged in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190019857
    Abstract: An organic EL display device includes: a lower electrode; an upper electrode; a first organic layer which is disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode and is formed of a plurality of layers including a light emitting layer formed of an organic material that emits light; a metal wire that extends between the pixels within the display region; and a second organic layer which is formed of a plurality of layers the same as that of the first organic layer and which comes into contact with a part of the metal wire and does not come into contact with the first organic layer. The upper electrode comes into contact with the metal wire in the periphery of the second organic layer. Accordingly, it is possible to uniformize the potential of the upper electrode without reducing the light emission area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Yuko MATSUMOTO, Toshihiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10177205
    Abstract: A display device including a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a display region above a substrate, each of the plurality of first electrodes being in common with n (n is an integer of 2 or more) number of light emitting elements, a bank having a recess part and partitioning the n number of light emitting elements with the recess part as a boundary in each of the plurality of first electrodes, a light emitting layer arranged above the plurality of first electrodes throughout the display region, and n groups of second electrodes arranged above the light emitting layer and electrically separated with the recess part as a boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yasukazu Kimura, Toshihiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20190005880
    Abstract: A display module including a substrate having a plurality of pixels, a data line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line, and a gate driving circuit thereon. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device, a first thin film transistor connected to the data line that supplies the data signal, a second thin film transistor connected to the current supply line, and a capacitor. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer connected to the second thin film transistor, an organic layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Yoshiyuki KANEKO
  • Patent number: 10170727
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent device with a touch sensor including: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; an organic EL element layer arranged above the first substrate; a first sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the organic EL element layer, covering the organic EL element layer, and including a first inorganic layer; plural first detection electrodes extending in one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the first sealing film; a second sealing film arranged toward the second substrate of the first detection electrodes, and including a second inorganic layer; plural second detection electrodes extending in another direction different from the one direction, and arranged in parallel toward the second substrate of the second sealing film; and a touch sensor control unit controlling a potential to detect a touch with a display surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Ryoichi Ito