Patents by Inventor Yojiro Matsuda

Yojiro Matsuda 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).

  • Publication number: 20160299454
    Abstract: A light emitter includes an elongated substrate and a plurality of emission elements on the substrate. The emission elements include a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode in this order from the substrate side. The organic layer stretches over one of the emission elements and a next one in the longitudinal direction of the substrate. The light emitter further has a plurality of projections on the substrate. Each of the projections is adjacent to each of the emission elements in the transverse direction of the substrate. The emission elements are located between one of the projections and another. The projections are higher than the second electrode with respect to the principal surface of the substrate. The projections and the second electrode are spaced from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Ryuji Ishii, Koji Ishizuya, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20160093809
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device having high emission efficiency and a long continuous driving lifetime. The organic light emitting device includes: an anode; a cathode; and an emitting layer placed between the anode and the cathode, in which: the emitting layer contains an emitting material that emits fluorescence; and in an emission wavelength region of the emitting material, an absorption peak of an absorption spectrum in a minimum excited triplet state of a material having a smallest minimum excited triplet energy out of constituent materials in the emitting layer is absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Kenichi Ikari, Hiroki Ohrui, Yojiro Matsuda, Haruna Iida, Masumi Itabashi, Kei Tagami, Tetsuo Takahashi, Satoru Shiobara, Tomona Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20160079544
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting element having stable performance in the air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Jun Kamatani, Hiroki Ohrui, Yojiro Matsuda, Masanori Muratsubaki, Satoru Shiobara, Tetsuo Takahashi, Haruna Iida
  • Publication number: 20150364716
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device, including: a substrate; and a lower electrode, an organic compound layer including an emission layer, and an upper electrode sequentially provided on the substrate, in which: the organic compound layer covers the lower electrode; the upper electrode covers the organic compound layer; the upper electrode is electrically connected to a wiring connecting portion provided in the substrate; and when an angle formed between a tilt of a section of an end in at least a partial region of the organic compound layer and a surface of the substrate is represented by ?1, the following formulas (1) and (2) are satisfied: tan(?1)=d1/d2??(1) tan(?1)?0.2??(2) in the formula (1), d1 represents a thickness of the organic compound layer and d2 represents a taper width of the section of the end of the organic compound layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Satoru Shiobara, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Yojiro Matsuda, Nobutaka Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20150362855
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting device, including: a lower electrode; an upper electrode and a substrate having an electrode pad portion, in which when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in a region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and a surface of the substrate is given as ?1, Formula (1) and Formula (2) are satisfied; and when an angle formed by a slant in section of a film end in at least a part of other regions than the region between the lower electrode and the electrode pad portion and the surface of the substrate is given as ?3, Formula (3) and Formula (4) are satisfied. tan(?1)=d1/d2??(1) tan(?1)<0.2??(2) tan(?3)=d3/d4??(3) tan(?3)?0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Nobutaka Mizuno, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Satoru Shiobara, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20150270493
    Abstract: Provided is an organic light emitting element having stable performance in the air. The organic light emitting element includes: an anode; a cathode; and an emission layer placed between the anode and the cathode, in which: the organic light emitting element further includes a first organic compound layer placed between the cathode and the emission layer, and a second organic compound layer placed between the emission layer and the first organic compound layer, and contacted with the first organic compound layer; the first organic compound layer contains a first organic compound; the second organic compound layer contains a second organic compound; and the first organic compound includes a viologen compound represented by the following general formula [1] and the second organic compound includes an organic compound different from the viologen compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Yosuke Nishide, Jun Kamatani, Hiroki Ohrui, Yojiro Matsuda, Masanori Muratsubaki, Satoru Shiobara, Tetsuo Takahashi, Haruna Iida
  • Publication number: 20150261119
    Abstract: An exposure device includes an element array that includes a plurality of organic electroluminescent elements and a lens array optical system that uses a lens array that includes a plurality of lenses, which forms images of light from the element array on a photosensitive body. In the exposure device, each electroluminescent element has a first electrode disposed on a light emitting side, a second electrode disposed on a light reflecting side, and a light emitting layer. In the exposure device, in each organic electroluminescent element, an optical path length L1 between a light emitting position of the light emitting layer and the second electrode is an optical path length within ±10% of an optical path length at which variation in light amount during light exposure is minimized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Noa Sumida, Takeyoshi Saiga, Yu Miyajima, Nobutaka Mizuno, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8928013
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a second electrode located on a light extraction side and having a metal film, and an organic compound layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer. In addition, a first inorganic protective layer is in direct contact with the second electrode and has a specified thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8866704
    Abstract: In a light-emitting apparatus including a cap layer disposed on a second electrode and a contact portion, which is disposed in an external region outside the light-emitting region and which electrically connects the second electrode to the drive circuit, the formation end of the cap layer is located in the side nearer to the light-emitting region than is the formation end of the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Junya Tamaki, Takuro Yamazaki, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8853715
    Abstract: A first light-emitting layer of a first organic electroluminescent element is disposed in common to a second organic electroluminescent element, a second light-emitting layer of the second organic electroluminescent element is disposed in contact with the first light-emitting layer and in the cathode side, and the second light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer having an electron trapping property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8809845
    Abstract: A first light-emitting layer of a first organic electroluminescent element is disposed in common to a second organic electroluminescent element, a second light-emitting layer of the second organic electroluminescent element is disposed in contact with the first light-emitting layer and in the anode side, and the second light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer having a hole trapping property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Patent number: 8587189
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic compound layer, and a second electrode on a substrate and emits light from the second electrode side, wherein the second electrode includes a first layer and a second layer in contact with the first layer sequentially from the substrate side, the second layer is a layer comprising Ag, and the first layer is a layer comprising Ag and Cs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shoji Sudo, Yojiro Matsuda, Kengo Kishino, Naoyuki Ito
  • Patent number: 8482515
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a first substrate provided with a plurality of closed containers, a fluid filled in the closed containers, a plurality of positively charged particles which have a relative dielectric constant different from the fluid and are dispersed and held in the fluid, a plurality of negatively charged particles which have a same color as the positively charged particles and a relative dielectric constant different from the fluid and are dispersed and held in the fluid, and a pair of electrodes for generating an electric field in the closed containers. The display apparatus displays an image formed by a positional distribution of positively and negatively charged particles in each of the closed containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20130048970
    Abstract: A first light-emitting layer of a first organic electroluminescent element is disposed in common to a second organic electroluminescent element, a second light-emitting layer of the second organic electroluminescent element is disposed in contact with the first light-emitting layer and in the anode side, and the second light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer having a hole trapping property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20130049017
    Abstract: A first light-emitting layer of a first organic electroluminescent element is disposed in common to a second organic electroluminescent element, a second light-emitting layer of the second organic electroluminescent element is disposed in contact with the first light-emitting layer and in the cathode side, and the second light-emitting layer is a light-emitting layer having an electron trapping property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20130011161
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting element includes a first electrode, an organic compound layer, and a second electrode on a substrate and emits light from the second electrode side, wherein the second electrode includes a first layer and a second layer in contact with the first layer sequentially from the substrate side, the second layer is a layer comprising Ag, and the first layer is a layer comprising Ag and Cs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shoji Sudo, Yojiro Matsuda, Kengo Kishino, Naoyuki Ito
  • Publication number: 20120211782
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element includes a first electrode, an organic compound film including a plurality of layers that include an emissive layer, a second electrode, a protective layer, and a buffer layer formed by an evaporation method between the second electrode and the protective layer, light emitted from the emissive layer emerging from the second electrode side, in which the second electrode is formed of a metal film having a thickness of 5 nm to 20 nm, a distance between a surface of the emissive layer adjacent to the first electrode and a surface of the second electrode adjacent to the organic compound film is in the range of 55 nm to 90 nm, and the protective layer is formed by a sputtering method or a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Matsuda, Nobutaka Mizuno, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Publication number: 20120104367
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes pixel units, each including a plurality of pixels having different emission colors. The pixel unit is provided with lenses so that the difference in deterioration property among the emission colors of the pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toshinori Hasegawa, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20120104368
    Abstract: In a display apparatus in which a plurality of pixel units including a plurality of pixels whose emission colors are different are arranged and white is displayable by the pixel unit, the pixel includes an organic EL device, and lenses are provided in the pixel unit to minimize a difference of currents supplied to the organic EL devices for respective emission colors when white of desired luminance is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Isobe, Toshinori Hasegawa, Yojiro Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20120074391
    Abstract: A pixel unit having two or more pixels different in emission color is provided with lenses in such a manner that the difference of the angular dependence of brightness in organic EL elements for every emission color of the pixels becomes small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noa Sumida, Kiyofumi Sakaguchi, Toshinori Hasegawa, Yojiro Matsuda