Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Ujiie

Yasuharu Ujiie 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: 11856802
    Abstract: A first photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure incudes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a chromophore, fullerene or a fullerene derivative, and a hole-transporting material, in which the chromophore and the fullerene or the fullerene derivative are bonded to each other at least partially via a crosslinking group in the photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Saito, Sae Miyaji, Masato Kanno, Yasuharu Ujiie, Yuta Hasegawa, Osamu Enoki, Yuki Negishi
  • Publication number: 20230354627
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. Further, there is provided an electronic apparatus including an imaging device that includes an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu UJIIE, Masakazu MUROYAMA, Masashi BANDO, Masaki MURATA, Hideyuki KUMITA, Sachiko SAKAIGAWA, Shintarou HIRATA, Yuya KUMAGAI, Yu KATO
  • Publication number: 20230262998
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device and an electronic apparatus including an imaging device, where the imaging device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a first organic semiconductor material, a second organic semiconductor material, and a third organic semiconductor material, where the second organic semiconductor material comprises a subphthalocyanine material, and where the second organic semiconductor material has a highest occupied molecular orbital level ranging from ?6 eV to ?6.7 eV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta HASEGAWA, Masashi BANDO, Shintarou HIRATA, Hideaki MOGI, Iwao YAGI, Yasuharu UJIIE, Yuki NEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20220367573
    Abstract: An image pickup element is constituted by laminating at least a first electrode, an organic photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode in order, and the organic photoelectric conversion layer includes a first organic semiconductor material having the following structural formula (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki MURATA, Hideaki MOGI, Shintarou HIRATA, Iwao YAGI, Yasuharu UJIIE, Masashi BANDO, Raku SHIRASAWA, Hajime KOBAYASHI, Mitsunori NAKAMOTO, Yuichi TOKITA
  • Patent number: 11495762
    Abstract: An imaging element which is formed by sequentially stacking at least an anode, an anode-side buffer layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a cathode, in which the anode-side buffer layer includes a material having structural formula in which thiophene and carbazole are combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Ujiie, Ichiro Takemura, Masaki Orihashi, Yohei Hirose
  • Publication number: 20220310951
    Abstract: An imaging element which is formed by sequentially stacking at least an anode, an anode-side buffer layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a cathode, in which the anode-side buffer layer includes a material having structural formula in which thiophene and carbazole are combined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicants: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu UJIIE, Ichiro TAKEMURA, Masaki ORIHASHI, Yohei HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20220285630
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element uses organic materials and is provided with improved quantum efficiency and response rate. The organic photoelectric conversion element includes, in a photoelectric conversion layer, p-type molecules represented by Formula (1): in which A represents any one of oxygen, sulfur or selenium, any one of R1 to R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, the remainder of R1 to R4 each represent hydrogen, any one of R5 to R8 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, and the remainder of R5 to R8 each represent hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yosuke SAITO, Ichiro TAKEMURA, Osamu ENOKI, Yuki NEGISHI, Yuta HASEGAWA, Hideaki MOGI, Yasuharu UJIIE
  • Patent number: 11411051
    Abstract: An image pickup element is constituted by laminating at least a first electrode, an organic photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode in order, and the organic photoelectric conversion layer includes a first organic semiconductor material having the following structural formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Murata, Hideaki Mogi, Shintarou Hirata, Iwao Yagi, Yasuharu Ujiie, Masashi Bando, Raku Shirasawa, Hajime Kobayashi, Mitsunori Nakamoto, Yuichi Tokita
  • Publication number: 20220165781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image sensor and an electronic apparatus that suppress a decrease in light collection efficiency and degradation in oblique light resistance and enable a reduction in the height of a solid-state image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: HIDEAKI MOGI, YOHEI HIROSE, SHINTAROU HIRATA, YUYA KUMAGAI, TETSUJI YAMAGUCHI, MASAKI MURATA, YASUHARU UJIIE
  • Patent number: 11335861
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element uses organic materials and is provided with improved quantum efficiency and response rate. The organic photoelectric conversion element includes, in a photoelectric conversion layer, p-type molecules represented by Formula (1): in which A represents any one of oxygen, sulfur or selenium, any one of R1 to R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, the remainder of R1 to R4 each represent hydrogen, any one of R5 to R8 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, and the remainder of R5 to R8 each represent hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yosuke Saito, Ichiro Takemura, Osamu Enoki, Yuki Negishi, Yuta Hasegawa, Hideaki Mogi, Yasuharu Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11211422
    Abstract: Provided is a solid-state image sensor of a vertical spectral diffraction type in which a plurality of photoelectric conversion units are stacked in a region of each pixel, the solid-state image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion module that includes a first photoelectric conversion unit that to performs photoelectric conversion on light in a first wavelength range of incident light, a first upper electrode and a first lower electrode with the first photoelectric conversion unit between the first upper electrode and the first lower electrode, and a first spectral correction unit between the first upper electrode and the first lower electrode stacked on the first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit that performs photoelectric conversion on light in a second wavelength range of light that has passed through the first photoelectric conversion module, the second wavelength range is different from the first wavelength range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideaki Mogi, Yohei Hirose, Shintarou Hirata, Yuya Kumagai, Tetsuji Yamaguchi, Masaki Murata, Yasuharu Ujiie
  • Publication number: 20210193740
    Abstract: A first photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure incudes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a chromophore, fullerene or a fullerene derivative, and a hole-transporting material, in which the chromophore and the fullerene or the fullerene derivative are bonded to each other at least partially via a crosslinking group in the photoelectric conversion layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yosuke SAITO, Sae MIYAJI, Masato KANNO, Yasuharu UJIIE, Yuta HASEGAWA, Osamu ENOKI, Yuki NEGISHI
  • Publication number: 20210134887
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. Further, there is provided an electronic apparatus including an imaging device that includes an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu UJIIE, Masakazu MUROYAMA, Masashi BANDO, Masaki MURATA, Hideyuki KUMITA, Sachiko SAKAIGAWA, Shintarou HIRATA, Yuya KUMAGAI, Yu KATO
  • Publication number: 20210083009
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an organic semiconductor material represented by the following general formula (1), in which the organic semiconductor material includes, in at least one of R2 or R6, a substituent represented by the following general formula (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: OSAMU ENOKI, YUTA HASEGAWA, YUKI NEGISHI, IWAO YAGI, YASUHARU UJIIE, YOSUKE SAITO
  • Publication number: 20210057649
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed to be opposed to and between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the photoelectric conversion layer includes a first compound represented by the general formula and a second compound having a skeleton different from the first compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu ENOKI, Yuki NEGISHI, Yuta HASEGAWA, Iwao YAGI, Yasuharu UJIIE, Yosuke SAITO
  • Patent number: 10886335
    Abstract: There is provided an imaging device including an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. Further, there is provided an electronic apparatus including an imaging device that includes an upper electrode; a lower electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode; and a first organic semiconductor material including an indolocarbazole derivative and disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Ujiie, Masakazu Muroyama, Masashi Bando, Masaki Murata, Hideyuki Kumita, Sachiko Sakaigawa, Shintarou Hirata, Yuya Kumagai, Yu Kato
  • Publication number: 20200295074
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image sensor and an electronic apparatus that suppress a decrease in light collection efficiency and degradation in oblique light resistance and enable a reduction in the height of a solid-state image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: HIDEAKI MOGI, YOHEI HIROSE, SHINTAROU HIRATA, YUYA KUMAGAI, TETSUJI YAMAGUCHI, MASAKI MURATA, YASUHARU UJIIE
  • Publication number: 20200274077
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element of the present disclosure includes: a first electrode: a second electrode opposed to the first electrode; and an organic layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including an organic photoelectric conversion layer, and at least one layer included in the organic layer is formed including at least one kind of organic semiconductor material represented by a general expression (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuharu UJIIE, Yosuke SAITO, Yuta HASEGAWA, Hideaki MOGI, Osamu ENOKI, Yuki NEGISHI
  • Patent number: 10692913
    Abstract: In an image pickup element or a photoelectric conversion element, at least an anode 21, a carrier blocking layer 22, an organic photoelectric conversion layer 23, and a cathode 25 are laminated in order, and the carrier blocking layer 22 includes a material having the following structural formula (1), and part of an organic semiconductor material constituting the organic photoelectric conversion layer 23.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masaki Murata, Yasuharu Ujiie, Shintarou Hirata, Yuya Kumagai
  • Publication number: 20200168815
    Abstract: A photoelectric conversion element uses organic materials and is provided with improved quantum efficiency and response rate. The organic photoelectric conversion element includes, in a photoelectric conversion layer, p-type molecules represented by Formula (1): in which A represents any one of oxygen, sulfur or selenium, any one of R1 to R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, the remainder of R1 to R4 each represent hydrogen, any one of R5 to R8 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl having 4 to 30 carbon atoms, and the remainder of R5 to R8 each represent hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Yosuke SAITO, Ichiro TAKEMURA, Osamu ENOKI, Yuki NEGISHI, Yuta HASEGAWA, Hideaki MOGI, Yasuharu UJIIE