Patents by Inventor Toyoharu Oohata

Toyoharu Oohata 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: 6984927
    Abstract: A display unit includes light emitting devices arrayed in such a manner as to be spaced from each other, and a sealing material for covering the surfaces of the light emitting devices, wherein the sealing material has a light diffusion function. The light diffusion function is given to the sealing material by providing a reflection mirror and a half mirror in the sealing material, dispersing, in the sealing material, fine particles having a refractive index different from that of the sealing material, or dispersing bubbles in the sealing material. Since the light diffusion function is given to the sealing material, the light emission region of each of the light emitting devices is substantially enlarged to a size nearly equal to an array pitch of the light emitting devices, to thereby obtain an image display excellent in viewability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6974711
    Abstract: A device transfer method includes the steps of: covering a plurality of devices, which have been formed on a substrate, with a resin layer; forming electrodes in the resin layer in such a manner that the electrodes are connected to the devices; cutting the resin layer, to obtain resin buried devices each containing at least one of the devices; and peeling the resin buried devices from the substrate and transferring them to a device transfer body. This device transfer method is advantageous in easily, smoothly separating devices from each other, and facilitating handling of the devices in a transfer step and ensuring good electric connection between the devices and external wiring, even if the devices are fine devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toyoharu Oohata, Toshiaki Iwafuchi
  • Patent number: 6972204
    Abstract: A first adhesive layer is provided on a base substrate, and multiple devices are arranged on the first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is irradiated with laser light from the back side of the base substrate, only at positions corresponding to the devices to be transferred, by use of a mask, whereby the adhesive force of the first adhesive layer is lowered only at these positions, and only these devices are made releasable from the base substrate. A transfer substrate provided with a second adhesive layer and the base substrate are so disposed that the devices and the second adhesive layer are opposite to each other and pressed against each other. When the transfer substrate is stripped from the base substrate, only the devices to be transferred are selectively transferred onto the transfer substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toyoharu Oohata, Toshiaki Iwafuchi, Hisashi Ohba
  • Patent number: 6969624
    Abstract: The interface between a first substrate and light-emitting diodes formed on the first substrate is selectively irradiated with an energy beam and transmits the energy beam through the first substrate, thereby selectively releasing the light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes are then transferred onto a device holding layer included on a device holding substrate. Subsequently, the light-emitting diodes are transferred onto a second substrate. The irradiation of the interface with the energy beam enables the devices to be easily released from the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Iwafuchi, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6963086
    Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor light emitting device capable of enhancing a light emergence efficiency at a lower light emergence plane of the device by forming an electrode on a halfway area of a tilt crystal plane and a fabrication method thereof. According to this light emitting device, since light emitted by a light emitting region can be efficiently, totally reflected and a current can be injected only in a good crystalline region for the reason that the halfway area, on which the electrode is formed, of the tilt crystal plane is better in crystallinity than other regions of the tilt crystal plane, it is possible to enhance both a light emergence efficiency and a luminous efficiency, and hence to enhance the light emergence efficiency by an input current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6961993
    Abstract: A device mounting method capable of efficiently, accurately arraying micro-devices on a circuit board is provided. The method includes a device separating step of separating a plurality of LED chips, which have been arrayed with a specific period on a wafer, into individual LED chips while keeping the arrayed state of the LED chips as it is, a device re-arraying step of handling the individually separated LED chips so as to re-array the LED chips at intervals of a value equivalent to the period multiplied by a specific magnification, and a device transferring step of transferring the re-arrayed LED chips on a mounting board while keeping the re-arrayed state of the LED chips as it is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050233546
    Abstract: A first adhesive layer is provided on a base substrate, and multiple devices are arranged on the first adhesive layer. The first adhesive layer is irradiated with laser light from the back side of the base substrate, only at positions corresponding to the devices to be transferred, by use of a mask, whereby the adhesive force of the first adhesive layer is lowered only at these positions, and only these devices are made releasable from the base substrate. A transfer substrate provided with a second adhesive layer and the base substrate are so disposed that the devices and the second adhesive layer are opposite to each other and pressed against each other. When the transfer substrate is stripped from the base substrate, only the devices to be transferred are selectively transferred onto the transfer substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Toyoharu Oohata, Toshiaki Iwafuchi, Hisashi Ohba
  • Publication number: 20050233504
    Abstract: A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided. A device transfer method and a display apparatus are provided by or in which, in transferring devices arranged on a substrate onto another substrate, it is possible to easily strip the substrate after the transfer of the devices, to lower the possibility of damaging of the substrate, and to additionally transfer devices onto the same substrate after the transfer of the devices. A plurality of devices arranged on a temporary holding substrate are embedded into and held in a pressure sensitive adhesive layer formed on a transfer substrate, and the devices are stripped from the temporary holding substrate. Other devices are further additionally embedded into the pressure sensitive adhesive layer before hardening the pressure sensitive adhesive layer, whereby the devices can be arranged on a transfer substrate having a large area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Masato Doi, Katsuhiro Tomoda, Toshihiko Watanabe, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6946686
    Abstract: A first conductive type layer having a band gap energy smaller than that of an under growth layer formed on a substrate is formed by selective growth from an opening portion formed in the under growth layer, and an active layer and a second conductive type layer are stacked on the first conductive type layer, to form a stacked structure. When such a stacked structure for forming a semiconductor device is irradiated with laser beams having an energy value between the band gap energies of the under growth layer and the first conductive type layer, abrasion occurs at a first conductive type layer side interface between the under growth layer and the first conductive type layer, so that the stacked structure is peeled from the substrate and the under growth layer and simultaneously isolated from another stacked structure for forming another semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Masato Doi, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050200794
    Abstract: Disclosed are a semiconductor light emitting device capable of enhancing a light emergence efficiency at a lower light emergence plane of the device by forming an electrode on a halfway area of a tilt crystal plane and a fabrication method thereof. According to this light emitting device, since light emitted by a light emitting region can be efficiently, totally reflected and a current can be injected only in a good crystalline region for the reason that the halfway area, on which the electrode is formed, of the tilt crystal plane is better in crystallinity than other regions of the tilt crystal plane, it is possible to enhance both a light emergence efficiency and a luminous efficiency, and hence to enhance the light emergence efficiency by an input current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Publication date: September 15, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050194606
    Abstract: A semiconductor crystal layer formed by epitaxial growth on a seed crystal substrate is embedded in an insulating material in the condition where the seed crystal substrate is removed, electrodes are provided respectively on a first surface of the semiconductor crystal layer and a second surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first surface, and lead-out electrodes connected to the electrodes are led out to the same surface side of the insulating material. The semiconductor crystal layer functions as a semiconductor light-emitting device or a semiconductor electronic device. The insulating material is, for example, a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6939729
    Abstract: The interface between a first substrate and light-emitting diodes formed on the first substrate is selectively irradiated with an energy beam and transmits the energy beam through the first substrate, thereby selectively releasing the light-emitting diodes. The light-emitting diodes are then transferred onto a device holding layer included on a device holding substrate. Subsequently, the light-emitting diodes are transferred onto a second substrate. The irradiation of the interface with the energy beam enables the devices to be easily released from the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiaki Iwafuchi, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050186763
    Abstract: A semiconductor crystal layer formed by epitaxial growth on a seed crystal substrate is embedded in an insulating material in the condition where the seed crystal substrate is removed, electrodes are provided respectively on a first surface of the semiconductor crystal layer and a second surface of the semiconductor layer opposite to the first surface, and lead-out electrodes connected to the electrodes are led out to the same surface side of the insulating material. The semiconductor crystal layer functions as a semiconductor light-emitting device or a semiconductor electronic device. The insulating material is, for example, a resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050179025
    Abstract: Semiconductor light-emitting devices are provided. The semiconductor light-emitting devices include a substrate and a crystal layer selectively grown thereon at least a portion of the crystal layer is oriented along a plane that slants to or diagonally intersect a principal plane of orientation associated with the substrate thereby for example, enhancing crystal properties, preventing threading dislocations, and facilitating device miniaturization and separation during manufacturing and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okuyama, Masato Doi, Goshi Biwa, Toyoharu Oohata, Tomoyuki Kikutani
  • Publication number: 20050179043
    Abstract: A display device is formed by burying at least part of a light emitting device in an insulating material, wherein a drive electrode for the light emitting device is formed so as to be extracted on a surface of the insulating material. A display unit is produced by two-dimensionally arraying such light emitting devices on a base body. Since the display device is modularized by burying a light emitting device finely formed in an insulating material, to re-shape the light emitting device into a size easy to handle, it is possible to suppress the production cost of the display unit using such display devices, and to ensure a desirable handling performance of the light emitting device; for example, facilitate the carrying of the light emitting device or the mounting thereof on a base body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Toyoharu Oohata, Hideharu Nakajima, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toshiaki Iwafuchi
  • Publication number: 20050181548
    Abstract: A device transfer method includes the steps of: covering a plurality of devices, which have been formed on a substrate, with a resin layer; forming electrodes in the resin layer in such a manner that the electrodes are connected to the devices; cutting the resin layer, to obtain resin buried devices each containing at least one of the devices; and peeling the resin buried devices from the substrate and transferring them to a device transfer body. This device transfer method is advantageous in easily, smoothly separating devices from each other, and facilitating handling of the devices in a transfer step and ensuring good electric connection between the devices and external wiring, even if the devices are fine devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toyoharu Oohata, Toshiaki Iwafuchi
  • Publication number: 20050179044
    Abstract: A display device is formed by burying at least part of a light emitting device in an insulating material, wherein a drive electrode for the light emitting device is formed so as to be extracted on a surface of the insulating material. A display unit is produced by two-dimensionally arraying such light emitting devices on a base body. Since the display device is modularized by burying a light emitting device finely formed in an insulating material, to re-shape the light emitting device into a size easy to handle, it is possible to suppress the production cost of the display unit using such display devices, and to ensure a desirable handling performance of the light emitting device; for example, facilitate the carrying of the light emitting device or the mounting thereof on a base body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Toyoharu Oohata, Hideharu Nakajima, Yoshiyuki Yanagisawa, Toshiaki Iwafuchi
  • Publication number: 20050174623
    Abstract: The invention provides an electrochromic display unit with high-quality display. The display unit comprises a transparent electrode (1), a display layer (2) which is formed on the transparent electrode (1) and which changes a color according to the amount of accumulated electrical charges, and an ion conductive layer (3) formed on the display layer (2). A plurality of picture electrodes (4) are formed on the ion conductive layer (3) on the side opposite to the display layer (2). The picture electrodes (4) are driven independently by, for example, a corresponding thin film transistors (6). In driving, by applying a drive current having given amount of electrical charges and then applying a certain amount of an inverted current, a certain amount of coloration is deducted, and extra coloration of the display layer (2) is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Michio Arai, Eriko Matsui, Kenji Shinozaki, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Patent number: 6927164
    Abstract: A first conductive type layer having a band gap energy smaller than that of an under growth layer formed on a substrate is formed by selective growth from an opening portion formed in the under growth layer, and an active layer and a second conductive type layer are stacked on the first conductive type layer, to form a stacked structure. When such a stacked structure for forming a semiconductor device is irradiated with laser beams having an energy value between the band gap energies of the under growth layer and the first conductive type layer, abrasion occurs at a first conductive type layer side interface between the under growth layer and the first conductive type layer, so that the stacked structure is peeled from the substrate and the under growth layer and simultaneously isolated from another stacked structure for forming another semiconductor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Goshi Biwa, Hiroyuki Okuyama, Masato Doi, Toyoharu Oohata
  • Publication number: 20050170538
    Abstract: Semiconductor light-emitting devices are provided. The semiconductor light-emitting devices include a substrate and a crystal layer selectively grown thereon at least a portion of the crystal layer is oriented along a plane that slants to or diagonally intersect a principal plane of orientation associated with the substrate thereby for example, enhancing crystal properties, preventing threading dislocations, and facilitating device miniaturization and separation during manufacturing and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Okuyama, Masato Doi, Goshi Biwa, Toyoharu Oohata, Tomoyuki Kikutani