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).
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Patent number: 10147778Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10147903Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a peripheral region folded back to face a rear surface of the substrate, and a counter region facing the peripheral region; and a filling member held between the peripheral region and the counter region. The substrate is folded such that the display device includes a first overlapping portion where a part of the peripheral region is bonded with the counter region with an adhesive material being provided therebetween; a second overlapping portion where a part of the peripheral region is in direct contact with the filling member; and a third overlapping portion where a part of the peripheral region is bonded with the filling member with an adhesive material being provided therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Naohisa Ando, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10141539Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takayasu Suzuki, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10128318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10121800Abstract: A display device is provided including a substrate having a first region and a second region, a plurality of pixels above the first region, and a connection terminal above the second region, wherein a Young's modulus of the second region is higher than a Young's modulus of the first region.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kazuto Tsuruoka, Toshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20180315955Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Hironori TOYODA
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Patent number: 10109697Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 2, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Yoshiyuki Kaneko, Yoshiro Mikami, Takayuki Ouchi
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Patent number: 10109701Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yuko Matsumoto, Toshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20180298482Abstract: The purpose is providing a vapor deposition mask with high rigidity which can evaporate a uniform thickness film. A vapor deposition mask including a mask body having a main opening, a side surface of the main opening, an upper surface intersecting the side surface, and a lower surface opposing the upper surface, a first insulator contacting the lower surface, and a second insulator contacting the upper and side surfaces, wherein the first insulator includes a first region inside the main opening, and a first opening in the first region, the second insulator includes a second region inside the main opening, and a second opening in the second region, the mask body is sandwiched between the first and second insulators, and one of the first and second insulators includes a region located inside the main opening more centrally than the other and not overlapping with the other and the mask body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Inventors: Toshihiro SATO, Takeshi OOKAWARA
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Patent number: 10101619Abstract: A display device has a transistor including a gate terminal, a first input-output terminal and a second input-output terminal, the gate terminal connected to a scanning signal line and the first input-output terminal connected to a video signal line, a photoconductive element including a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal connected to the second input-output terminal of the transistor and the second terminal connected to a first power line, and a light-emitting element including a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the third terminal connected to the second input-output terminal of the transistor and the fourth terminal connected to a second power line.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshio Miyazawa, Shigeru Sakamoto, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10074311Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Yoshiyuki Kaneko
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Patent number: 10068959Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device including a pixel region including a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element and a terminal region provided outside the pixel region and including connection terminals; the method comprising: forming a recessed portion in a part of a top surface of each of the connection terminals; forming a first inorganic insulating layer, an organic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer sequentially in the pixel region and continuously in the terminal region; and etching the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer in an area where the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer are stacked directly, the area being on the top surface except the recessed portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takeshi Kuriyagawa, Kazufumi Watabe, Toshihiro Sato
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Publication number: 20180248148Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Takayasu SUZUKI, Toshihiro SATO
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Patent number: 10062846Abstract: A manufacturing method of a display device includes: forming, in a resin layer including a display area where a plurality of lower electrodes is formed and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a band-like groove which divides the resin layer in a form of surrounding the display area; forming an organic electroluminescence layer including a light emitting layer, on the resin layer and inside the band-like groove in such a way as to be placed on the plurality of lower electrodes; irradiating the organic electroluminescence layer with a pulse laser and thus eliminating the organic electroluminescence layer in such a way that a part of the organic electroluminescence layer is left in a shape of an island at least on a bottom surface of the band-like groove and that the bottom surface of the band-like groove is continuously exposed in the form of surrounding the display area.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshifumi Mimura, Masahiro Watabe, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10062744Abstract: An organic display device includes a pixel driving circuit having a thin film transistor connected to a current supply line and a capacitor. A first insulation layer, with a first electrode thereon, covers a source electrode of the transistor. The first electrode is connected to the transistor through a contact hole the insulation layer. A second insulation layer including an aperture is formed on the first insulation layer and electrode layers. An organic light emitting layer, with a second electrode thereon is formed in the aperture and connected to the first electrode. The second insulation layer includes an inner wall at the aperture, said inner will having a surface of a convex plane on an edge of the recessed part of the first electrode. The convex plane is located between the organic light emitting layer and the edge of the first electrode, and the second electrode is formed over plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10043995Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a lower electrode that is made of a conductive inorganic material and formed in each of pixels arranged in a matrix in a display area; a light-emitting organic layer that is in contact with the lower electrode and made of a plurality of different organic material layers including a light-emitting layer emitting light; an upper electrode that is in contact with the light-emitting organic layer, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive inorganic material; and a conductive organic layer that is in contact with the upper electrode, formed so as to cover the whole of the display area, and made of a conductive organic material.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Hironori Toyoda
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Publication number: 20180218795Abstract: To include a cylindrical vortex chamber 35, a small flow-rate pipe 37 connected to a peripheral plate 35C of the vortex chamber 35 along a tangential direction thereof, a large flow-rate pipe 36 connected to the peripheral plate 35C with a predetermined angle with respect to the small flow-rate pipe 37, an outlet pipe connected to an outlet 39 formed in a central part of the vortex chamber 35, and a straightening plate 50 that is arranged in a part between the outlet 39 and the peripheral plate 35C of the vortex chamber 35, and when jets flow into the vortex chamber 35 from the small flow-rate pipe 37 and the large flow-rate pipe 36, straightens impinging jets from the small flow-rate pipe 37 and from the large flow-rate pipe 36 having flowed into the vortex chamber 35 toward the outlet 39.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hideyuki Sakata, Shigeto Hirai, Taiki Asahara, Takafumi Ogino, Akira Kirita, Akihiro Toda, Masamichi Iino, Toshihiro Sato, Yutaka Tanaka, Takanori Okazaki, Takashi Nakahara
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Publication number: 20180212000Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventor: Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10032831Abstract: A display device preventing light leak to an adjacent pixel and thus to prevent color mixing to improve image quality is provided. An organic EL display device includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels each include a light emitting element; the light emitting element includes a pixel electrode, a common electrode, an EL common layer, and a light emitting layer; the EL common layer and the light emitting layer are provided between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; the EL common layer covers a main surface and an end of the pixel electrode; the pixel electrode is provided on an insulating layer; and the common electrode is in contact with the insulating layer between the plurality of pixels.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.Inventors: Yuko Matsumoto, Toshihiro Sato
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Patent number: 10023950Abstract: The purpose is providing a vapor deposition mask with high rigidity which can evaporate a uniform thickness film. A vapor deposition mask including a mask body having a main opening, a side surface of the main opening, an upper surface intersecting the side surface, and a lower surface opposing the upper surface, a first insulator contacting the lower surface, and a second insulator contacting the upper and side surfaces, wherein the first insulator includes a first region inside the main opening, and a first opening in the first region, the second insulator includes a second region inside the main opening, and a second opening in the second region, the mask body is sandwiched between the first and second insulators, and one of the first and second insulators includes a region located inside the main opening more centrally than the other and not overlapping with the other and the mask body.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Toshihiro Sato, Takeshi Ookawara