Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Yatsu

Yasuharu Yatsu 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: 8416202
    Abstract: The present invention realizes the reduction of cost of a display device having a touch panel. The display device having a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel which is arranged on the display panel in an overlapping manner in plane. The touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to face each other with spacers sandwiched therebetween, and a first semiconductor chip which is mounted on the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hajime Akimoto, Yasuharu Yatsu, Hiroshi Kageyama, Noriharu Matsudate, Naruhiko Kasai
  • Patent number: 8248333
    Abstract: In an image display device, each pixel includes a drive transistor for driving a light emitting element, a capacitive element which is connected between a signal line and a control electrode of the drive transistor, and a reset switching element. The reset switching elements of all pixels are turned off within a light emission period, and a PWM signal is supplied to a signal line from a drive circuit. A cycle of the PWM signal in a low brightness display mode is shorter than a cycle of the PWM signal in a standard brightness display mode. Due to such a constitution, the constitution of a drive circuit can be simplified, and it is possible to control light emission brightnesses of respective pixels of red, green and blue over a wide range from high brightness to low brightness while taking a balance among the light emission brightnesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Norihiro Nakamura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Hajime Akimoto
  • Patent number: 8054401
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a front surface and a back surface, a first and second frame, a first elastic member arranged between the first frame and the front surface of the display panel, and a second elastic member arranged between the second frame and the back surface of the display panel, the second elastic member extending in parallel to the first elastic member. A hardness of the first elastic member varies along an elongated direction of the first elastic member so as to have a high-hardness portion, and wherein a hardness of a first portion of the second elastic member which corresponds in location to the high-hardness portion of the first elastic member has a low hardness, a hardness of a second portion of the second elastic member which corresponds in location to the low-harness portion of the first elastic member has a high hardness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Yoshiteru Tomizuka
  • Publication number: 20110234568
    Abstract: A display device includes: scanning lines for selecting a group of pixels out of pixels; control lines to which a pulse signal is supplied to control selection of at least one of the plurality of scanning lines to which a scanning signal is input; a scanning circuit which includes transistors controlled with the pulse signal, the scanning circuit being connected to the plurality of scanning lines and being disposed outside a display area; and a conductive mesh including conductive wires running in intersecting directions. The conductive mesh is placed above the transistors and the plurality of scanning lines except the display area. Above the plurality of scanning lines, the plurality of conductive wires constituting the conductive mesh intersect each other three-dimensionally in a manner that does not make the plurality of conductive wires parallel to the plurality of scanning lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Inventors: Takeshi IZUMIDA, Kenta Kajiyama, Naoki Tokuda, Yasuharu Yatsu, Noriyuki Shikina
  • Publication number: 20110122335
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel having a front surface and a back surface, a first and second frame, a first elastic member arranged between the first frame and the front surface of the display panel, and a second elastic member arranged between the second frame and the back surface of the display panel, the second elastic member extending in parallel to the first elastic member. A hardness of the first elastic member varies along an elongated direction of the first elastic member so as to have a high-hardness portion, and wherein a hardness of a first portion of the second elastic member which corresponds in location to the high-hardness portion of the first elastic member has a low hardness, a hardness of a second portion of the second elastic member which corresponds in location to the low-harness portion of the first elastic member has a high hardness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Yoshiteru Tomizuka
  • Patent number: 7889287
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a frame, an elastic spacer arranged on a peripheral portion of the display panel in parallel to the edge of the display panel, the elastic spacer being arranged between the display panel and the frame. A hardness of the elastic spacer varies along the length-side direction of the elastic spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Hitachi Display Devices, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Yoshiteru Tomizuka
  • Publication number: 20100039454
    Abstract: In an image display device, each pixel includes a drive transistor for driving a light emitting element, a capacitive element which is connected between a signal line and a control electrode of the drive transistor, and a reset switching element. The reset switching elements of all pixels are turned off within a light emission period, and a PWM signal is supplied to a signal line from a drive circuit. A cycle of the PWM signal in a low brightness display mode is shorter than a cycle of the PWM signal in a standard brightness display mode. Due to such a constitution, the constitution of a drive circuit can be simplified, and it is possible to control light emission brightnesses of respective pixels of red, green and blue over a wide range from high brightness to low brightness while taking a balance among the light emission brightnesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Norihiro NAKAMURA, Yasuharu YATSU, Hajime AKIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20090201267
    Abstract: The present invention realizes the reduction of cost of a display device having a touch panel. The display device having a touch panel includes a display panel, and a touch panel which is arranged on the display panel in an overlapping manner in plane. The touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged to face each other with spacers sandwiched therebetween, and a first semiconductor chip which is mounted on the first substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: August 13, 2009
    Inventors: Hajime Akimoto, Yasuharu Yatsu, Hiroshi Kageyama, Noriharu Matsudate, Naruhiko Kasai
  • Publication number: 20090109149
    Abstract: An image display device having a plurality of pixel, a plurality of signal lines for inputting an image voltage to each of the plurality of pixels, and a pixel selecting unit for selecting from the plurality of pixels a pixel into which the image voltage is to be written, in which each of the pixels has a light emitting device of a current driving-type, a driving transistor connected between a power line and the light emitting device, and a capacitance device having one end connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, the image voltage is input to the other end of the capacitance device during the writing period, an inclined wave voltage which changes a voltage level thereof according to time is input to the other end of the capacitance device during a light emission period following the writing period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Hajime Akimoto, Norihiro Nakamura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Hiroshi Kageyama, Tohru Kohno
  • Patent number: 7379128
    Abstract: A display device has a display panel, a frame, and an elastic spacer arranged on the periphery of the display panel in parallel to the edge of the display panel. The elastic spacer is arranged between the display panel and the frame, and the hardness of the elastic spacer is varied along the length-side direction of the elastic spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignees: Hitachi Displays, Ltd., Hitachi Display Devices, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Yoshiteru Tomizuka
  • Publication number: 20070216670
    Abstract: The present invention ensures the efficient radiation of heat of a flat display panel without increasing a space outside a display screen of the flat display panel. A periphery of a reinforcing member adhered to a back surface of the flat display panel is folded in an L-shape and a driver IC is brought into contact with the folded portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Atsuo Osawa, Mikio Shiraishi, Yoshie Kodera, Tetsu Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20050057703
    Abstract: A display device has a display panel, a frame, and an elastic spacer arranged on the periphery of the display panel in parallel to the edge of the display panel. The elastic spacer is arranged between the display panel and the frame, and the hardness of the elastic spacer is varied along the length-side direction of the elastic spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Masaki Tsubokura, Yasuharu Yatsu, Tatsuyuki Fumikura, Yoshiteru Tomizuka
  • Patent number: 6437498
    Abstract: A three in-line beam type color CRT includes a focus electrode and an anode. The focus electrode includes a first focus sub-electrode supplied with a first fixed focus voltage and a second focus sub-electrode supplied with a second fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage synchronized with beam deflection, and the first and second focus sub-electrodes form a quadrupole lens therebetween. Two side electron beams are deflected toward a center electron beam with increasing dynamic voltage in the quadrupole lens. An axial distance Lgf (mm) from a cathode side end of the first focus sub-electrode to an anode side end of the second focus sub-electrode, an axial distance Ls (mm) from the end of the second focus sub-electrode to the phosphor screen, and a useful diagonal dimension D (mm) of the phosphor screen satisfy 0.06×Ls (mm)≦Lgf (mm)≦26 (mm) and 1.50≦D/Ls≦1.70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai, Yasuharu Yatsu
  • Publication number: 20020008457
    Abstract: A three in-line beam type color CRT includes a focus electrode and an anode. The focus electrode includes a first focus sub-electrode supplied with a first fixed focus voltage and a second focus sub-electrode supplied with a second fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage synchronized with beam deflection, and the first and second focus sub-electrodes form a quadrupole lens therebetween. Two side electron beams are deflected toward a center electron beam with increasing dynamic voltage in the quadrupole lens. An axial distance Lgf (mm) from a cathode side end of the first focus sub-electrode to an anode side end of the second focus sub-electrode, an axial distance Ls (mm) from the end of the second focus sub-electrode to the phosphor screen, and a useful diagonal dimension D (mm) of the phosphor screen satisfy 0.06×Ls (mm) ≦Lgf (mm)≦26 (mm) and 1.50≦D/Ls≦1.70.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai, Yasuharu Yatsu
  • Patent number: 6339300
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has G1-G5 electrodes and an anode. The G5 electrode is divided into sub-electrodes supplied alternately with a first fixed focus voltage and a second focus voltage which is a second fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage, at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between adjacent ones of the sub-electrodes, and two of the sub-electrodes are supplied with the second focus voltage. The following inequalities are satisfied: 0.0625×L (mm)≦B−20A/(3&phgr;)≦22.0 mm, L (mm)≦352 mm, where A is an axial length of the G4 electrode, &phgr; (mm) is an average diameter of a center aperture in the G4 electrode, B (mm) is a length from a cathode side end to a phosphor screen side end of said G5 electrode to the phosphor screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6329747
    Abstract: The in-line type electron gun includes an electron beam generating section for generating and directing plural electron beams along toward a phosphor screen, and an electron beam focusing section for focusing the plural electron beams from the electron beam generating section onto the phosphor screen. The electron beam focusing section includes a focus electrode, at least one intermediate electrode and an anode supplied with a highest voltage arranged in the order named. The at least one intermediate electrode is supplied with an intermediate voltage between the highest voltage and a voltage supplied to the focus electrode. The following relationship is satisfied: 1.55≦D/L≦1.72, and 18.2 mm≦d≦26 mm,where D (mm) is a diagonal length of a usable display area of the phosphor screen, L (mm) is a distance from a center of the phosphor screen to an end of the anode facing toward the focus electrode, and d (mm) is an outside diameter of the neck portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazunari Noguchi, Shoji Shirai, Tomoki Nakamura, Yasuharu Yatsu
  • Patent number: 6304026
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen, an in-line type electron gun having an electron beam generating section for projecting three electron beams arranged in parallel with each other in a horizontal plane toward the phosphor screen, a focus electrode, and an anode adjacent to the focus electrode and forming a main lens in cooperation with the focus electrode for focusing the electron beams on the phosphor screen. The focus electrode includes at least a first focus sub-electrode and a second focus sub-electrode on the order named from the cathode, the first focus sub-electrode and the second focus sub-electrode forming an electrostatic quadrupole lens therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai, Yasuharu Yatsu
  • Publication number: 20010009355
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube has G1-G5 electrodes and an anode. The G5 electrode is divided into sub-electrodes supplied alternately with a first fixed focus voltage and a second focus voltage which is a second fixed voltage superposed with a dynamic voltage, at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between adjacent ones of the sub-electrodes, and two of the sub-electrodes are supplied with the second focus voltage. The following inequalities are satisfied: 0.0625×L (mm)≦B−20A/(3&phgr;)≦22.0 mm, L (mm)≦352 mm, where A is an axial length of the G4 electrode, &phgr; (mm) is an average diameter of a center aperture in the G4 electrode, B (mm) is a length from a cathode side end to a phosphor screen side end of said G5 electrode to the phosphor screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Publication date: July 26, 2001
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai
  • Patent number: 6225765
    Abstract: A color cathode ray tube includes a phosphor screen, cathodes, a G1 electrode, a G2 electrode, a G4 electrode, a G5 electrode and an anode for focusing the electron beams on the phosphor screen. The G5 electrode is divided into plural sub-electrodes arranged to be supplied alternately with a first focus voltage and a second focus voltage, at least one electrostatic quadrupole lens is formed between two of the sub-electrodes supplied with the first and second focus voltages, respectively, at least one lens for correcting curvature of the image field is formed between two of the sub-electrodes supplied with the first and second focus voltages, respectively. The G4 electrode, the G5 electrode and the phosphor screen satisfy following inequalities: 0.0625×L (mm)≦B−20A/(3&phgr;)≦22.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Yatsu, Tomoki Nakamura, Shoji Shirai