Patents by Inventor Toshio Tojo

Toshio Tojo 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: 10153448
    Abstract: A display device is provided including a first electrodes arranged in a matrix shape above an insulation surface, a bank covering an end part of the first electrode and having an opening part exposing an upper surface of the first electrode, an organic layer covering the opening part and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode covering the bank and the organic layer, wherein the bank has an upper surface part and an inclined part between the upper surface part and an opening in the bank, and a surface of the inclined part has a plurality of concave and convex parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20180006256
    Abstract: A display device is provided including a first electrodes arranged in a matrix shape above an insulation surface, a bank covering an end part of the first electrode and having an opening part exposing an upper surface of the first electrode, an organic layer covering the opening part and including a light emitting layer, and a second electrode covering the bank and the organic layer, wherein the bank has an upper surface part and an inclined part between the upper surface part and an opening in the bank, and a surface of the inclined part has a plurality of concave and convex parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Toshio TOJO
  • Publication number: 20170357125
    Abstract: To provide a display device including a pixel electrode formed on an insulating surface; an organic layer including a light emitting layer and formed on the pixel electrode; an opposed electrode formed on the organic layer; a first inorganic insulating film formed on the opposed electrode; a first intermediate film formed on the first inorganic insulating film; and a first organic insulating film formed on the first intermediate film. The refractive index of the first intermediate film is less than the refractive index of the first inorganic insulating film and greater than the refractive index of the first organic insulating film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshio TOJO
  • Publication number: 20170250372
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes a first step of placing a substrate having a lower electrode formed thereon in a vacuum environment; a second step of forming in a vacuum an organic layer that includes a light emitting layer and covers the lower electrode; a third step of forming in a vacuum an upper electrode that covers the organic layer; a fourth step of forming in a vacuum a sealing layer that covers the upper electrode; and a cleaning step of cleaning the substrate after end of the first step before end of the fourth step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshio TOJO, Hideki OZAWA, Yuki HAMADA
  • Patent number: 9559154
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, pixel electrodes located in correspondence with pixels above the first substrate, a first partition covering ends of a group of the pixel electrodes, a second partition covering ends of another group of the pixel electrodes, the second partition being lower than the first partition, a solid filler located above the first partition and the second partition, and a second substrate facing the first substrate, the second substrate being away from the first substrate by a distance kept by the first partition, the second partition and the filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Ishii, Toshihiro Sato, Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20160013254
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate, pixel electrodes located in correspondence with pixels above the first substrate, a first partition covering ends of a group of the pixel electrodes, a second partition covering ends of another group of the pixel electrodes, the second partition being lower than the first partition, a solid filler located above the first partition and the second partition, and a second substrate facing the first substrate, the second substrate being away from the first substrate by a distance kept by the first partition, the second partition and the filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Yoshinori ISHII, Toshihiro SATO, Toshio TOJO
  • Patent number: 9142803
    Abstract: An organic EL display device ensures brightness and improves a contrast ratio by a reduction in external light reflection. The organic EL display device includes a wavelength selective absorption filter that absorbs a light in a given absorption spectrum uniform in a display region. An absorption spectrum has a negative correlation with an outgoing spectrum in which respective spectrums of R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels are synthesized together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventor: Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20140191215
    Abstract: An organic EL display device ensures brightness and improves a contrast ratio by a reduction in external light reflection. The organic EL display device includes a wavelength selective absorption filter that absorbs a light in a given absorption spectrum uniform in a display region. An absorption spectrum has a negative correlation with an outgoing spectrum in which respective spectrums of R pixels, G pixels, and B pixels are synthesized together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Toshio TOJO
  • Patent number: 8339560
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes the step of forming a preset basic pattern in a plurality of places on an insulation substrate by exposing and developing a photosensitive material film which is formed on the insulation substrate, wherein the exposure is performed using a direct writing exposure device. The exposure is performed using the direct writing exposure device in which the light quantity distribution of the pattern of light formed by the spatial optical modulating element is corrected such that a fluctuation quantity of a size of the basic pattern formed in the plurality of places becomes not more than 0.2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100328595
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a display device includes the step of forming a preset basic pattern in a plurality of places on an insulation substrate by exposing and developing a photosensitive material film which is formed on the insulation substrate, wherein the exposure is performed using a direct writing exposure device. The exposure is performed using the direct writing exposure device in which the light quantity distribution of the pattern of light formed by the spatial optical modulating element is corrected such that a fluctuation quantity of a size of the basic pattern formed in the plurality of places becomes not more than 0.2 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20100208186
    Abstract: In a manufacturing method of a display device where a photosensitive material film formed on a light-transmitting film is divided into a plurality of small regions and the respective small regions of the photosensitive material film are sequentially exposed, it is possible to decrease the deviation of a focal point of light to be radiated to each small region. In exposing the photosensitive material film formed on the light-transmitting film, the whole exposure subject region of the photosensitive material film is divided into a plurality of small regions, and a focal point of light to be radiated to each small region is decided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Hideo TANABE, Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20090244466
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device which can decrease periodical stripe-shaped irregularities is provided. In an active-matrix-type liquid crystal display device, a width of a stripe-shaped irregularity generating region where distance between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode changes is set to 50 ?m less. To be more specific, at the time of exposing a resist pattern on a TFT substrate, by scanning an exposure light plural times using a direct drawing exposure machine, a width of an overlapping region of exposure regions which is generated in scanning is set to 50 ?m or less thus setting the width of the stripe-shaped irregularity generating region to 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi, Jun Ooida, Hideo Tanabe, Toshiki Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20070273268
    Abstract: The present invention provides a display device which arranges a face substrate having a phosphor screen and a back substrate having electrons sources in a matrix array, wherein an average film density of the phosphor film which constitutes the phosphor screen is set to a value which falls within a range from 2.0 g/cm2 to 3.4 g/cm2. Due to such a constitution, it is possible to achieve the high brightness and the prolonged lifetime of the phosphor screen of the planar image display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi, Katsuyuu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20070159075
    Abstract: In an image display device, an opening area per unit area of opening portions formed in a BM film which is formed on an inner surface of a face substrate is set such that the opening area is gradually decreased from a center portion to a peripheral portion of an image display region. By preventing the generation of color mixing in a peripheral portion of an image display region attributed to the printing position displacement of phosphor film or missing of dots in the phosphor film in pixels, it is possible to provide the image display device which can enhance a yield rate and, at the same time, can acquire an image display of high color uniformity over the whole surface of the image display region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventors: Terunobu Satou, Go Saitou, Toshio Tojo, Tsutomu Kuniyasu
  • Publication number: 20070029920
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a high-quality display device which prevents deterioration of color purity by use of a black matrix whose openings have sufficiently high partitions by a simple procedure. The black matrix BM is formed using an electroconductive black glass, comprising a glass incorporated with a black additive and electroconductive filler. The glass is mainly composed of V2O5, SnO2, Bi2O3, Ag2O or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventors: Osamu Shiono, Motoyuki Miyata, Yuichi Sawai, Takashi Naitou, Yoshie Kodera, Toshio Tojo, Masakazu Sagawa, Toshiaki Kusunoki
  • Patent number: 7148615
    Abstract: The present invention enhances the quality of displayed images by enhancing the uniformity of the total transmissivity over the whole surface of a panel having a wavelength selective absorption layer imparted with gradation thus reducing the color difference of the body color. A transmissivity ratio between a peripheral portion and a central portion of a panel formed of tinted glass which differs in wall thickness between the peripheral portion and the central portion of a screen before the surface treatment is set to a value not greater than 60%, and the body color of the panel is set such that L*=30 to 40, a*=?8.5 to 1.5, b*=?5 to 5 at the center portion, L*=13.5 to 23.5, a*=?7.5 to 2.5, b*=?6.5 to 3.5 at the peripheral portion, where color difference is set to ?a*b*?3, and the film formed on the outer surface of the panel is constituted of a wavelength selective absorption layer and a conductive layer which is formed over the wavelength selective absorption layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Norikazu Uchiyama
  • Publication number: 20060170329
    Abstract: An image display device includes: a front substrate having phosphor layers and a light reflective film succeeding the phosphor layers and composed chiefly of aluminum on an inner surface thereof; a rear substrate having plural electron sources on an inner surface thereof, and disposed to oppose the front substrate with a specified spacing between the front and rear substrates; and a support member which is sandwiched between the front and rear substrates, surrounds a display area formed between the front and rear substrates, and maintains the specified spacing. Two end faces of the support member are hermetically sealed to the front substrate and the rear substrate, respectively, via sealing members. A thickness of the light reflective film is in a range of from 50 nm to 200 nm, and an average film density of the light reflective film is in a range of from 1.6 g/cm3 to 2.6 g/cm3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Nobuyasu Hayashi, Katsuyuu Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20060038480
    Abstract: This invention provides a flat-panel display apparatus adapted to reduce the electric charges stored into fluorescent materials, and to allow spacers to be arranged easily and accurately, and capable of displaying high-quality images by improving color purity of the colored light emitted toward the viewing side. The display apparatus according to this invention has a rear substrate 1 including an electrical insulating substrate 10 on which are formed a large number of cold-cathode elements 19 for emitting electrons, a display substrate 101 including a light-transmissive substrate 110 which is disposed facing the rear substrate 1 and on which are formed the fluorescent materials 111 that emit light when excited by the electron beams sent from the cold-cathode elements 19, and a frame member 116.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Publication date: February 23, 2006
    Inventors: Tetsu Ohishi, Yoshie Kodera, Toshio Tojo, Yoshiro Mikami, Toshimitsu Watanabe
  • Patent number: 6992425
    Abstract: A high definition display apparatus having a wavelength selective absorption effect and an anti-static and anti-reflection effect is provided by thin films having a low resistance and a high refractive index. The high definition display apparatus has an anti-static and anti-reflection film composed of laminated oxide or metallic thin films, wherein at least three layers of oxide or metallic films having different reflectance from each other are laminated onto the front surf ace of the display apparatus, and the laminated films are composed such that an absorbing film containing coloring material is arranged under a high reflectance film as seen from the outer surface of the laminated films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi-Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Ishikawa, Daigoro Kamoto, Tomoji Oishi, Ken Takahashi, Norikazu Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Miura, Masahiro Nishizawa, Toshio Tojo
  • Publication number: 20040178717
    Abstract: The present invention enhances the quality of displayed images by enhancing the uniformity of the total transmissivity over the whole surface of a panel having a wavelength selective absorption layer imparted with gradation thus reducing the color difference of the body color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventors: Toshio Tojo, Norikazu Uchiyama