Patents by Inventor Yoshihide Ohue
Yoshihide Ohue 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).
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Patent number: 11789303Abstract: A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region around the display region, a sealing portion provided in the peripheral region to seal a liquid crystal layer, and a liquid crystal supply portion provided at a part of the sealing portion and interconnecting an outside of the sealing portion and the display region. The peripheral region includes a first peripheral region which is provided between the display region and the sealing portion and from which an insulating film is removed and a second peripheral region which is provided between the display region and the sealing portion and in which the insulating film covering a circuit is formed. A light blocking film arranged so as to straddle the first and second peripheral regions and extending linearly in an extending direction of a boundary between the first and second peripheral regions is formed on a substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Kitamura, Yoshihide Ohue, Kentaro Okuyama, Hiroya Morimoto, Masato Kesho
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Publication number: 20230326424Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines extending in a direction intersecting the first direction, a first scanning circuit coupled to first coupling end parts of the scanning lines, a second scanning circuit coupled to second coupling end parts of the scanning lines, the second coupling end parts being opposite the first coupling end parts of the scanning lines, the first coupling end parts coupled to the first scanning circuit, and a signal output circuit configured to supply image signals to the signal lines. The scanning lines each have a broken part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Yoshihide OHUE, Daijiro TAKANO
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Publication number: 20230324751Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; spacers regulating a distance between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines arranged in a first direction; scan lines arranged in a second direction; switching elements each of which is coupled to a corresponding scan line and a corresponding signal line; and an organic insulating layer covering at least the switching elements. An area surrounded by the scan lines and the signal lines has a second area having a thickness less than that of the organic insulating layer in a first area overlapping the switching elements, the scan lines, and the signal lines in plan view. The spacers arranged in the first area have a thickness less than that of the organic insulating layer in the first area.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Yoshihide OHUE, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Yuuji OOMORI, Koji KITAMURA
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Publication number: 20230324750Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to emit light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes: signal lines arranged in a first direction with spaces interposed between the signal lines; scan lines arranged in a second direction with spaces interposed therebetween; a switching element coupled to a corresponding one of the scan lines and a corresponding one of the signal lines; an organic insulating layer that covers at least the switching element; and a metal layer provided on the upper side of the organic insulating layer so as to overlap the organic insulating layer. A positional misalignment portion of each signal line does not overlap a positional misalignment portion of the metal layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Yoshihide OHUE, Yuuji OOMORI, Koji KITAMURA, Kentaro OKUYAMA
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Patent number: 11768409Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a counter substrate comprising a common electrode in a position at least overlapping the pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to emit light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in a display region: a plurality of signal lines arranged in a first direction with spaces between the signal lines; a plurality of scanning lines arranged in a second direction with spaces between the scanning lines; and common potential wiring provided outside the display region. The counter substrate comprises light-blocking coupling wiring that couples the common electrode to a conductive first power feeding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yoshihide Ohue
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Patent number: 11747690Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a light source that emits light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The display device includes: first wiring lines in a first peripheral region outside a display region, the first wiring lines being configured to be supplied with a constant potential; and second wiring lines in a second peripheral region located opposite to the first peripheral region with the display region therebetween, the second wiring lines being coupled to the scanning lines. A shape of a region occupied by the first wiring lines in the first peripheral region is obtained by inverting a shape of a region occupied by the second wiring lines in the second peripheral region, in a mirror-symmetrical manner. The first wiring lines are not coupled to the scanning lines.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yoshihide Ohue
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Publication number: 20230204996Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scanning lines; a grid-shaped organic insulating layer that extends along the scanning lines and the signal lines and overlies the scanning lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes provided in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines; and a first orientation film that covers the pixel electrodes. A portion of each pixel electrodes overlaps a slant surface of the organic insulating layer. The counter substrate includes: a common electrode overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a protective film that has an insulating capability and a light transmitting capability and covers a side of the common electrode facing the array substrate at least in the display region; and a second orientation film that covers the protective film.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Yuuji OOMORI
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Publication number: 20230187456Abstract: A TFT substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of transistors provided on the substrate and each including an oxide semiconductor layer, a plurality of scanning lines electrically coupled to gates of the transistors and extending in a first direction, a plurality of signal lines electrically coupled to the oxide semiconductor layers of the transistors and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, an insulating film covering the signal lines and the oxide semiconductor layers, and a coupling wire provided on the insulating film. At least one of the signal lines is separated in the second direction by a slit, and the coupling wire electrically couples one signal line and another signal line adjacent to each other in the second direction across the slit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Hiroshi INAMURA, Kaoru TAKETA, Yoshihide OHUE
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Publication number: 20230152915Abstract: A display device with a sensor in which deterioration of display quality is suppressed even when sensor wires are superimposed on respective slits of detection electrodes disposed side by side. The display device includes detection electrodes, sensor wires, pixels, scanning lines, and signal lines on a first insulating substrate. The detection electrodes are arrayed in a matrix in first and second directions. The sensor wires and signal lines are disposed alternately in the first direction and provided on the same layer. Switching elements of two of the pixels disposed side by side in the first direction each are coupled to one of the signal lines, and the signal line is superimposed on the corresponding detection electrode that straddles the two pixels. The sensor wires are disposed between the two pixels disposed side by side and superimposed on the respective slits of the two detection electrodes disposed side by side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Yoshihide OHUE, Yukiya HIRABAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230106279Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules, and a light-emitting element. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, an organic insulating film overlapping the switching element, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element. A thickness of the organic insulating film located between the transparent substrate and the pixel electrode is less than a thickness of the organic insulating film overlapping the switching element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro OKUYAMA, Yoshihide OHUE, Hiroki SUGIYAMA, Tomoyuki TADA
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Patent number: 11619841Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source. The array substrate includes: signal lines; scanning lines; a grid-shaped organic insulating layer that extends along the scanning lines and the signal lines and overlies the scanning lines and the signal lines; pixel electrodes provided in regions surrounded by the scanning lines and the signal lines; and a first orientation film that covers the pixel electrodes. A portion of each pixel electrodes overlaps a slant surface of the organic insulating layer. The counter substrate includes: a common electrode overlapping the respective pixel electrodes; a protective film that has an insulating capability and a light transmitting capability and covers a side of the common electrode facing the array substrate at least in the display region; and a second orientation film that covers the protective film.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Hiroki Sugiyama, Kentaro Okuyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Yuuji Oomori
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Patent number: 11614661Abstract: A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region around the display region, a sealing portion provided in the peripheral region to seal the liquid crystal layer, and a liquid crystal supply portion provided at a part of the sealing portion and interconnecting an outside of the sealing portion and the display region. The liquid crystal supply portion is provided along one side of the peripheral region. The peripheral region includes a first peripheral region located between the display region and the sealing portion. An insulating film is removed in the first peripheral region. In the first peripheral region, a plurality of second spacer members and a plurality of third spacer members to support the plurality of second spacer members are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji Kitamura, Yoshihide Ohue, Kentaro Okuyama, Hiroya Morimoto, Masato Kesho
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Patent number: 11592920Abstract: A display device with a sensor in which the deterioration of display quality is suppressed even when the sensor wires are superimposed on the respective slits of two detection electrodes disposed side by side. The display device includes pixels, scanning lines, signal lines on a first insulating substrate, detection electrodes arrayed in a matrix in first and second directions, and sensor wires and signal lines disposed alternately in the first direction and provided on the same layer. Switching elements of two of the pixels disposed side by side in the first direction each are coupled to one of the signal lines, and the signal line is superimposed on the corresponding detection electrode that straddles the two pixels. The sensor wires are disposed between the two pixels disposed side by side in the first direction and superimposed on the respective slits of the two detection electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Yoshihide Ohue, Yukiya Hirabayashi
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Patent number: 11579482Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an array substrate having a display region provided with a plurality of signal lines arranged with spaces in a first direction and a plurality of scanning lines arranged with spaces in a second direction; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to cause light to enter a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The counter substrate is provided with a light-blocking layer. In a plan view, the light-blocking layer overlaps either of the signal lines and the scanning lines, and the other of the signal lines and the scanning lines each have a non-overlapping portion that does not overlap the light-blocking layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventor: Yoshihide Ohue
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Patent number: 11561423Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer including polymers and liquid crystal molecules, and a light-emitting element. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, a scanning line, a signal line crossing the scanning line, a switching element electrically connected to the scanning line and the signal line, an organic insulating film overlapping the switching element, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the switching element. A thickness of the organic insulating film located between the transparent substrate and the pixel electrode is less than a thickness of the organic insulating film overlapping the switching element.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Kentaro Okuyama, Yoshihide Ohue, Hiroki Sugiyama, Tomoyuki Tada
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Publication number: 20220373838Abstract: A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region around the display region, a sealing portion provided in the peripheral region to seal a liquid crystal layer, and a liquid crystal supply portion provided at a part of the sealing portion and interconnecting an outside of the sealing portion and the display region. The peripheral region includes a first peripheral region which is provided between the display region and the sealing portion and from which an insulating film is removed and a second peripheral region which is provided between the display region and the sealing portion and in which the insulating film covering a circuit is formed. A light blocking film arranged so as to straddle the first and second peripheral regions and extending linearly in an extending direction of a boundary between the first and second peripheral regions is formed on a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2022Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Koji KITAMURA, Yoshihide OHUE, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Hiroya MORIMOTO, Masato KESHO
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Publication number: 20220317498Abstract: A display device includes a display region, a peripheral region around the display region, a sealing portion provided in the peripheral region to seal the liquid crystal layer, and a liquid crystal supply portion provided at a part of the sealing portion and interconnecting an outside of the sealing portion and the display region. The liquid crystal supply portion is provided along one side of the peripheral region. The peripheral region includes a first peripheral region located between the display region and the sealing portion. An insulating film is removed in the first peripheral region. In the first peripheral region, a plurality of second spacer members and a plurality of third spacer members to support the plurality of second spacer members are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Koji KITAMURA, Yoshihide OHUE, Kentaro OKUYAMA, Hiroya MORIMOTO, Masato KESHO
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Patent number: 11460739Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate including a plurality of first light-transmitting electrodes each disposed in a corresponding one of pixels; a counter substrate including positions overlapping the first light-transmitting electrodes and provided with a second light-transmitting electrode; a liquid crystal layer including polymer-dispersed liquid crystals filled between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and at least one light source configured to emit light toward a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in each of the pixels, a third light-transmitting electrode that at least partially overlaps the first light-transmitting electrode in the plan view with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. An area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region closer to the light source is larger than an area of the third light-transmitting electrode in the pixel in a display region farther from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Manabu Mizuno, Yoshihide Ohue, Hiroki Sugiyama, Kentaro Okuyama
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Publication number: 20220299807Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: an array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes; a counter substrate comprising a common electrode in a position at least overlapping the pixel electrodes; a liquid crystal layer between the array substrate and the counter substrate; and a light source disposed so as to emit light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The array substrate includes, in a display region: a plurality of signal lines arranged in a first direction with spaces between the signal lines; a plurality of scanning lines arranged in a second direction with spaces between the scanning lines; and common potential wiring provided outside the display region. The counter substrate comprises light-blocking coupling wiring that couples the common electrode to a conductive first power feeding portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventor: Yoshihide OHUE
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Publication number: 20220283462Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a light source that emits light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The display device includes: first wiring lines in a first peripheral region outside a display region, the first wiring lines being configured to be supplied with a constant potential; and second wiring lines in a second peripheral region located opposite to the first peripheral region with the display region therebetween, the second wiring lines being coupled to the scanning lines. A shape of a region occupied by the first wiring lines in the first peripheral region is obtained by inverting a shape of a region occupied by the second wiring lines in the second peripheral region, in a mirror-symmetrical manner. The first wiring lines are not coupled to the scanning lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventor: Yoshihide OHUE