Patents by Inventor Valerie Berryman-Bousquet

Valerie Berryman-Bousquet 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: 11825672
    Abstract: A quantum dot light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate, with a first electrode layer located on the substrate. An emissive layer having a first set of quantum dots is electrically coupled with the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer is also electrically coupled with the emissive layer. The second electrode layer is located opposite the first electrode layer, relative to the emissive layer. A first charge transport layer is placed between the emissive layer and the first electrode layer, and a second charge transport layer is placed between the emissive layer and the second electrode layer. At least one of the first charge transport layer and the second charge transport layer includes a second set of quantum dots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sharp Display Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Zampetti, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Patent number: 11653514
    Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a combined charge transport and emissive layer (CCTEL) disposed between the anode and the cathode. The CCTEL includes a crosslinked charge transport material, a first plurality of quantum dots having a first energy gap, and a second plurality of quantum dots having a second energy gap wider than the first energy gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Alessandro Minotto, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Publication number: 20230064348
    Abstract: A light-emitting structure comprises a substrate, a sub-pixel stack patterned over the substrate, an insulating material patterned to surround the emissive stack, and a bank patterned to surround the sub-pixel stack and the insulating material. The sub-pixel stack comprises an emissive stack between a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: PETER NEIL TAYLOR, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET, HYWEL HOPKIN
  • Publication number: 20230055560
    Abstract: A quantum dot light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate, with a first electrode layer located on the substrate. An emissive layer having a first set of quantum dots is electrically coupled with the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer is also electrically coupled with the emissive layer. The second electrode layer is located opposite the first electrode layer, relative to the emissive layer. A first charge transport layer is placed between the emissive layer and the first electrode layer, and a second charge transport layer is placed between the emissive layer and the second electrode layer. At least one of the first charge transport layer and the second charge transport layer includes a second set of quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: ANDREA ZAMPETTI, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET
  • Publication number: 20230037057
    Abstract: A top-emitting pixel device is disclosed. The pixel device may include a reflective bottom electrode disposed over a substrate, a first charge transport layer disposed over the reflective bottom electrode, an emissive layer disposed over the first charge transport layer, and a second charge transport layer disposed over the emissive layer. Further, the pixel device may include a patterned transparent polymer electrode disposed over the second charge transport layer and extending laterally to cover an emissive area of the top-emitting pixel device, and a patterned auxiliary electrode disposed at least partially over the patterned transparent polymer electrode outside of the emissive area of the top-emitting pixel device to make direct electrical contact with the patterned transparent polymer electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: HYWEL HOPKIN, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET, ANDREW KAY, ALEX YUDIN, ALESSANDRO MINOTTO
  • Publication number: 20230018862
    Abstract: A sub-pixel array device includes a plurality of optoelectronic devices disposed on a substrate, the plurality of optoelectronic devices including a light-emitting device and a light-converting device, and a bank structure that separates adjacent optoelectronic devices. Each optoelectronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an active layer disposed between the electrodes and including a solution processable semiconductor, and a photo-crosslinkable material disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The photo-crosslinkable material may be incorporated within the active layer of each of the plurality of optoelectronic devices, so as to form a light-emitting device having a photo-crosslinkable emissive layer and a light-converting device having a photo-crosslinkable photo-active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Alessandro Minotto, Andrea Zampetti, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Publication number: 20220376196
    Abstract: A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and a combined charge transport and emissive layer (CCTEL) disposed between the anode and the cathode. The CCTEL includes a crosslinked charge transport material, a first plurality of quantum dots having a first energy gap, and a second plurality of quantum dots having a second energy gap wider than the first energy gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: ALESSANDRO MINOTTO, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET
  • Patent number: 11509117
    Abstract: A light emitting element (semiconductor laser element) includes a multilayer structure in which a substrate, semiconductor layers to, an insulating layer, and a metal layer are stacked in order. The light emitting element includes a plurality of light emitting portions each of which emits a laser beam. The plurality of light emitting portions each include a ridge (ridge waveguide). The distance from a specific position in an active region in at least one of the light emitting portions to an inner surface of the metal layer is different from that in another of the light emitting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Alex Yudin, Yoshimi Tanimoto, Yoshihiko Tani, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Publication number: 20220208873
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a sub-pixel region with a sub-pixel stack having a first electrode, second electrode, emissive layer between the first electrode and second electrode, a first charge transporting layer between the emissive layer and the first electrode, and a second charge transporting layer between the emissive layer and the second electrode. A bank in a bank region surrounds the sub-pixel stack. One of the first charge transporting or injecting layer and the second charge transporting or injecting layer is formed in the sub-pixel region and the bank region, and an electrical resistance of the first charge transporting layer and the second charge transporting layer in the bank region is higher than the sub-pixel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: ANDREA ZAMPETTI, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET, TIM MICHAEL SMEETON
  • Patent number: 10907774
    Abstract: [Object] Collection efficiency of a reflector that reflects a converted beam, which is converted from a pump beam by a phosphor, and projects the resultant as a projection beam is increased. [Solution] An optical member (4) of a light source unit (1) deflects a pump beam (PB) so that a first angle of incidence (?1) of a pump beam (PBX) relative to a surface of a phosphor (3) is larger than a second angle of incidence (?2) of the pump beam (PB), which is incident on the optical member (4), relative to the surface of the phosphor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Karl Peter Welna, Mattia Signoretto, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Patent number: 10788190
    Abstract: A light source unit provides enhanced control of a colour shift of white light reflected by a retro-reflector. The light source unit includes a pump light source, which emits laser pump light, a phosphor, which converts the laser pump light into white light, a retro-reflector, which has an output aperture that allows emission of part of the white light, the retro-reflector reflecting another part of the white light back to the phosphor, and scattering particles, which are adjusted to increase a blue light ratio of the white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mattia Signoretto, Karl Peter Welna, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet, Koji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200227892
    Abstract: A light emitting element (semiconductor laser element) includes a multilayer structure in which a substrate, semiconductor layers to, an insulating layer, and a metal layer are stacked in order. The light emitting element includes a plurality of light emitting portions each of which emits a laser beam. The plurality of light emitting portions each include a ridge (ridge waveguide). The distance from a specific position in an active region in at least one of the light emitting portions to an inner surface of the metal layer is different from that in another of the light emitting portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: ALEX YUDIN, YOSHIMI TANIMOTO, YOSHIHIKO TANI, VALERIE BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET
  • Patent number: 10705280
    Abstract: A light source module includes: a convergent beam generating unit which generates, based on a pump beam emitted from a light source, a convergent pump beam having a beam size that decreases as the convergent pump beam propagates; a light guide body inside which the convergent pump beam, having been generated by the convergent beam generating unit, propagates; an extraction part which causes the convergent pump beam, having propagated inside the light guide body, to exit from the light guide body; and a wavelength conversion element which converts a wavelength of the convergent pump beam, being incident on the wavelength conversion element through the extraction part, and emits, through the light guide body, the convergent pump beam whose wavelength has been converted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Karl Peter Welna, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet, Koji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200191342
    Abstract: [Object] Collection efficiency of a reflector that reflects a converted beam, which is converted from a pump beam by a phosphor, and projects the resultant as a projection beam is increased. [Solution] An optical member (4) of a light source unit (1) deflects a pump beam (PB) so that a first angle of incidence (?l) of a pump beam (PBX) relative to a surface of a phosphor (3) is larger than a second angle of incidence (a2) of the pump beam (PB), which is incident on the optical member (4), relative to the surface of the phosphor (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Karl Peter Welna, Mattia Signoretto, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Publication number: 20200166197
    Abstract: [Object] To control a colour shift of white light reflected by a retro-reflector. [Solution] A light source unit (1) includes a pump light source (2), which emits laser pump light (11), a phosphor (3), which converts the laser pump light (11) into white light (12), a retro-reflector (4), which has an output aperture (5) that allows emission of part of the white light (12), the retro-reflector (4) reflecting another part of the white light (12) back to the phosphor (3), and scattering particles (7), which are adjusted to increase a blue light ratio of the white light (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Mattia Signoretto, Karl Peter Welna, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet, Koji Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20200166687
    Abstract: A light source module includes: a convergent beam generating unit which generates, based on a pump beam emitted from a light source, a convergent pump beam having a beam size that decreases as the convergent pump beam propagates; a light guide body inside which the convergent pump beam, having been generated by the convergent beam generating unit, propagates; an extraction part which causes the convergent pump beam, having propagated inside the light guide body, to exit from the light guide body; and a wavelength conversion element which converts a wavelength of the convergent pump beam, being incident on the wavelength conversion element through the extraction part, and emits, through the light guide body, the convergent pump beam whose wavelength has been converted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Karl Peter Welna, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10270218
    Abstract: A laser device includes a light source that emits a source light having a first peak wavelength. A nonlinear optical component performs a frequency conversion process that converts the source light into output light having a second peak wavelength. A stabilization component minimizes a mismatch error constituting a difference between the first peak wavelength and a wavelength for which the frequency conversion process in the nonlinear optical component has a maximum value. The stabilization component may include a housing that is thermally conductive between the light source and the nonlinear optical component to minimize a temperature difference between the light source and the nonlinear optical component. The laser device may include a focusing optical component that focuses the source light to have a convergence half angle that is larger than a convergence half angle that gives maximum output power, thereby increasing an acceptable range of the mismatch error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Karl Peter Welna, Edward Andrew Boardman, Tim Michael Smeeton, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet
  • Publication number: 20190067912
    Abstract: A group III nitride based laser light emitting device includes an n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region, a p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region, and a group III nitride based active region between the p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region and n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region. The group III nitride based active region includes first and second quantum well layers and a barrier layer between the first and second quantum well layers, the respective compositions of the first and second quantum well layers comprising different respective amounts of indium. The first quantum well is closer to the n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region than the second quantum well, the second quantum well is closer to the p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region than the first quantum well, and the first quantum well has a larger band gap than the second quantum well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Alex YUDIN, Yoshihiko TANI, Valerie BERRYMAN-BOUSQUET, Shigetoshi ITO
  • Patent number: 10218152
    Abstract: A group III nitride based laser light emitting device includes an n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region, a p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region, and a group III nitride based active region between the p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region and n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region. The group III nitride based active region includes first and second quantum well layers and a barrier layer between the first and second quantum well layers, the respective compositions of the first and second quantum well layers comprising different respective amounts of indium. The first quantum well is closer to the n-side group III nitride based semiconductor region than the second quantum well, the second quantum well is closer to the p-side group III nitride based semiconductor region than the first quantum well, and the first quantum well has a larger band gap than the second quantum well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Alex Yudin, Yoshihiko Tani, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet, Shigetoshi Ito
  • Patent number: 10184890
    Abstract: A gas analyzer and related methods are for measuring a concentration of a component of a gas mixture. The gas analyzer includes a gas cell defining an overall volume for housing the gas mixture, a gas inlet and a gas outlet, a light source that emits a light beam into the gas cell, and a light detector that detects a portion of the light of the light beam that has propagated through the gas mixture, the concentration of the component of the gas mixture being determined based on the portion of the light beam detected by the light detector. The gas cell defines an optical volume for travel of the light beam within the gas cell, and the optical volume comprises at least a portion of the overall volume and is configured to suppress turbulent flow of the gas mixture within the optical volume to reduce optical noise generated by the gas mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Jing Li, Jacob Thomas Barrett, Tim Michael Smeeton, Valerie Berryman-Bousquet