Patents by Inventor Yasushi Tomioka

Yasushi Tomioka 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).

  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150109569
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize a liquid crystal display device having a photo-aligned alignment film in which the alignment film is overlapped with a seal material to downsize a frame area, and the reliability of a seal portion can be secured. A first alignment film and a second alignment film are overlapped with a seal material, the first alignment film and the second alignment film are made of material containing 0.5 wt % or larger and 2 wt % or smaller of an amine-system silane coupling agent, and the shrinkage ratio and the storage elastic modulus of the seal material evaluated using the modulus of volume change by a specific gravity cup method are 5.1% or smaller and 9.2 Pa or smaller, respectively. Accordingly, a frame area can be downsized, and the reliability of a seal portion can be maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Noboru KUNIMATSU, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Toshiyuki HIGANO, Emi HIGANO, Midori TSUKANE, Hirofumi WAKEMOTO, Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150098048
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate, a CF substrate, and a liquid crystal interposed between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate, and drives the liquid crystal in a horizontal electric field. The TFT substrate includes a recess, and the CF substrate includes a columnar protrusion. The protrusion of the CF substrate is fitted to the recess of the TFT substrate so as to function as a stopper for preventing a positional gap between the TFT substrate and the CF substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Takato HIRATSUKA, Osamu ITOU
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY PANEL
    Publication number: 20150085218
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-definition, high-contrast, and high-aperture-ratio liquid crystal display device that prevents light leakage near wall electrodes. There is provided a liquid crystal display device including: two parallel wall electrodes that are disposed on the both sides of a pixel; an opposite electrode that is disposed in the middle between the two parallel wall electrodes; and a photo-alignment film, wherein the initial alignment direction of liquid crystal of the photo-alignment film is substantially parallel to or orthogonal to the stretching direction of the two parallel wall electrodes, and the opposite electrode is inclined only by a predetermined bias angle relative to the initial alignment direction of liquid crystal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Takato HIRATSUKA, Osamu ITOU
  • Method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device comprising an alignment film that includes a photolytic polymer and a non-photolytic polymer
    Patent number: 8988639
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film formed thereon, an opposing substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. The alignment film on the TFT substrate includes a photolytic polymer made from a first precursor including cyclobutane, and a non-photolytic polymer made from a second precursor. The method includes the steps of depositing a mixture material including the first precursor and the second precursor in which the second precursor settles more on an upper surface of the TFT substrate than the first precursor, imidizing the mixture material, and irradiating the mixture material with ultraviolet light for photo-alignment, and after irradiating, heating the mixture material to form the alignment film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Kunimatsu, Chikae Matsui, Hidehiro Sonoda, Yuko Matsumoto, Shoichi Uchino, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150070636
    Abstract: In the step of curing a resin for bonding a TFT substrate and a counter substrate each having an alignment film that has been optically aligned by using UV-light, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light can be prevented without using a light shielding mask. A UV-light absorption layer is formed between each black matrix on the counter substrate. The TFT and counter substrates are sealed at their periphery by a resin that is cured by UV-light radiated from the counter substrate side. Since the absorption layer has a high absorbability to UV-light at a wavelength of 300 nm or less that degrades the alignment film, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light for curing the resin seal material can be prevented. Thus, provision of a light shielding mask for shielding the UV-light for the display region can be saved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Noboru KUNIMATSU, Yuko MATSUMOTO, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Masateru MORIMOTO, Atsuhiro KATAYAMA
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150062515
    Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device which is highly reliable even with a slim frame area. Ina liquid crystal display device having a display area and a frame area, the frame area includes, in an area close to the display area, a flat portion where an organic insulation film, a transparent conductive film, and an alignment film are stacked in this order and, in an area away from the display area, a groove structure formed in the organic insulation film, the groove structure being continuous surrounding the display area. The organic insulation film is less wettable than the transparent conductive film by the alignment film ink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Yasushi TOMIOKA, Noboru KUNIMATSU, Hidehiro SONODA, Yosuke HYODO
  • ORIENTATION FILM MATERIALS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING IT
    Publication number: 20150062520
    Abstract: Various layer separation states are generated by the combination of a polyamide acid ester and a polyamide acid and a long residual image characteristic cannot be further improved merely by combining them. A liquid crystal display device comprises a substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an orientation film placed between the substrate and the liquid crystal layer. The orientation film comprises a polyimide precursor having two or more components. In the polyimide precursor, an octanol-water partition coefficient is defined as log P and the difference in log P (? log P) between the two components having most distant log Ps is set so as to fall within a prescribed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki MATSUMORI, Shuuji IMAZEKI, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Noboru KUNIMATSU
  • ORIENTATION FILM MATERIALS AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING IT
    Publication number: 20150064366
    Abstract: The long residual image characteristic of a conventional photo-orientation film material is insufficient. A liquid crystal display device comprises substrates, a liquid crystal layer, an electrode group to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, and orientation control films placed between the substrates and the liquid crystal layer. Each of the orientation control films comprises a polyimide and a polyimide precursor, as materials of the polyimide and the polyimide precursor, at least one kind of first diamines, at least one kind of second diamines, and a cyclobutane tetracarboxylic dianhydride derivative are contained, and an orientation restraining force is granted by the irradiation of nearly linearly polarized light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki MATSUMORI, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Noboru KUNIMATSU
  • ALIGNMENT FILM, COMPOSITION FOR FORMING ALIGNMENT FILM AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150062519
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate, one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a group of electrodes for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, which is formed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of active elements connected to the group of electrodes; and an alignment film disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the alignment film contains a polyimide and a precursor of the polyimide, each of which is formed from a diamine and an acid anhydride, and the diamine contains a first diamine having an acidic group and a second diamine having a nitrogen atom-containing functional group other than two amino groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Masaki Matsumori, Yasuo Imanishi, Yasushi Tomioka, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150055070
    Abstract: A TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded via a seal material. Alignment films are applied to entire surfaces of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate so as to realize even thickness of the alignment film. This allows a display region to be formed up to the area around the seal material. The alignment film is photo-alignment processed. An organic film formed of the material which is not photo-aligned is interposed between the alignment film and the seal material. High bonding strength between the organic film and the seal material improves reliability of a seal portion as well as reduces a frame region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Noboru KUNIMATSU, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Hidehiro SONODA, Yosuke HYODO, Yasuo IMANISHI
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150055043
    Abstract: In an IPS mode liquid crystal display device, a counter electrode is formed flat on a first insulating film. A second insulating film is formed in the peripheral portion of the counter electrode. A third insulating film is formed so as to cover the counter electrode and the second insulating film. A pixel electrode is formed on the third insulating film. The second and third insulating films are present between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the periphery of the pixel. The third insulating film is present between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode in the portion other than the peripheral portion of the pixel. An electric field between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode is smaller in the periphery of the pixel than in the vicinity of the center of the pixel, to prevent the occurrence of a domain in the periphery of the pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Takeshi SAKAI, Toshimasa ISHIGAKI, Yasushi TOMIOKA
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150049271
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates; an electrode group formed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of active elements connected to the electrode group; and a liquid crystal alignment film disposed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, in which the liquid crystal alignment film, which is formed by a photo-alignment process, contains polyimide formed using tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and/or diamine each having a specific chemical structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Shoichi Uchino, Noboru Kunimatsu, Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Yuko Matsumoto, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka, Jun Tanaka
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8958038
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates, at least one of which is transparent, a liquid crystal layer which is disposed between the first and second substrates, a pixel electrode and a common electrode which are formed on one of the first and second substrates and which apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, a plurality of active elements which is connected to the pixel electrode and the common electrode, an alignment film which is disposed on at least one of the first and second substrates and has one surface contacting the liquid crystal layer, and an underlying layer which is disposed on at least one of the first and second substrates and contacts the other surface of the alignment film. The pixel electrode is laminated on the common electrode having a plane shape through an isolation film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Imanishi, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka
  • METHOD FOR FABRICATING A LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE COMPRISING AN ALIGNMENT FILM THAT INCLUDES A PHOTOLYTIC POLYMER AND A NON-PHOTOLYTIC POLYMER
    Publication number: 20150011032
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film formed thereon, an opposing substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween. The alignment film on the TFT substrate includes a photolytic polymer made from a first precursor including cyclobutane, and a non-photolytic polymer made from a second precursor. The method includes the steps of depositing a mixture material including the first precursor and the second precursor in which the second precursor settles more on an upper surface of the TFT substrate than the first precursor, imidizing the mixture material, and irradiating the mixture material with ultraviolet light for photo-alignment, and after irradiating, heating the mixture material to form the alignment film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Noboru Kunimatsu, Chikae Matsui, Hidehiro Sonoda, Yuko Matsumoto, Shoichi Uchino, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka
  • LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF
    Publication number: 20150002802
    Abstract: The present invention prevents the shaving of an alignment film caused by a columnar spacer in a liquid crystal display device of an IPS method using photo-alignment. A plinth higher than a pixel electrode is formed at a part where a columnar spacer formed over a counter substrate touches a TFT substrate. When an alignment film of a double-layered structure is applied over the pixel electrode and the plinth, the thickness of the alignment film over the plinth reduces by a leveling effect. When photo-alignment is applied in the state, a photodegraded upper alignment film over the plinth disappears and a lower alignment film having a high mechanical strength remains. As a result, it is possible to prevent the shaving of the alignment film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Noboru KUNIMATSU, Masaki MATSUMORI, Hidehiro SONODA, Yasushi TOMIOKA, Toshiki KANEKO
  • Alignment film, composition for forming alignment film and liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8906474
    Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate and a second substrate, one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a group of electrodes for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer, which is formed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of active elements connected to the group of electrodes; and an alignment film disposed on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the alignment film contains a polyimide and a precursor of the polyimide, each of which is formed from a diamine and an acid anhydride, and the diamine contains a first diamine having an acidic group and a second diamine having a nitrogen atom-containing functional group other than two amino groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Masaki Matsumori, Yasuo Imanishi, Yasushi Tomioka, Noboru Kunimatsu
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8908134
    Abstract: In the step of curing a resin for bonding a TFT substrate and a counter substrate each having an alignment film that has been optically aligned by using UV-light, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light can be prevented without using a light shielding mask. A UV-light absorption layer is formed between each black matrix on the counter substrate. The TFT and counter substrates are sealed at their periphery by a resin that is cured by UV-light radiated from the counter substrate side. Since the absorption layer has a high absorbability to UV-light at a wavelength of 300 nm or less that degrades the alignment film, damage to the alignment film due to the UV-light for curing the resin can be prevented. Thus, provision of a light shielding mask for shielding the UV-light for the display region can be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Noboru Kunimatsu, Yuko Matsumoto, Yasushi Tomioka, Masateru Morimoto, Atsuhiro Katayama
  • Liquid crystal display device
    Patent number: 8906473
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes: a pair of substrates at least one of which is transparent; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the pair of substrates; an electrode group formed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; a plurality of active elements connected to the electrode group; and a liquid crystal alignment film disposed on at least one substrate of the pair of substrates, in which the liquid crystal alignment film, which is formed by a photo-alignment process, contains polyimide formed using tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and/or diamine each having a specific chemical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shoichi Uchino, Noboru Kunimatsu, Hidehiro Sonoda, Chikae Matsui, Yuko Matsumoto, Masaki Matsumori, Yasushi Tomioka, Jun Tanaka
  • Liquid Crystal Display Device
    Publication number: 20140333885
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of TFTs, a passivation film, and a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a second substrate arranged with a gap with the first substrate. The passivation film has a plurality of contact holes, and the plurality of pixel electrodes are connected to the plurality of TFTs via the plurality of contact holes. The second substrate has a plurality of columnar spacers for ensuring the gap with the first substrate, and a plurality of columnar projections for misalignment prevention formed at positions corresponding to the contact holes. The number of the plurality of columnar projections is less than the number of the plurality of columnar spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Yasushi Tomioka, Noboru Kunimatsu, Hidehiro Sonoda, Yasuo Imanishi, Koichi Igeta
  • Active matrix type liquid crystal display apparatus with complementary polarizer
    Patent number: 8879030
    Abstract: A transmitting liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel including a pair of substrates, a pair of polarizers arranged adjacent to the pair of substrates respectively, a liquid crystal layer held between the pair of substrates, and electrodes arranged on at least one of the pair of substrates and serving to apply an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; and a light source unit arranged external to the pair of substrates, in which each of the pair of polarizers has an absorption axis along with an extraordinary wave axis of molecules constituting the polarizers. In this apparatus, a dye layer having a disc-form molecular structure is arranged between the polarizer and the substrate, or adjacent to the polarizer in proximity to the viewer. The dye layer has a transmission axis along with the extraordinary wave axis of the disc-form molecular structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuka Utsumi, Katsumi Kondo, Yasushi Tomioka