Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Kitamura

Yoshitaka Kitamura 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: 20220165605
    Abstract: A color unevenness inspection system (100) of the present disclosure includes: an inspection stage (20) on which a flexible display (10) including a flexible substrate (12) is to be placed, the inspection stage (20) having a vacuum chuck surface (22); and a porous sheet (30) placed on the vacuum chuck surface (22) , the porous sheet being to be in contact with a lower surface of the flexible substrate (12). The porous sheet (30) has a plurality of pores for sucking in a single or a plurality of foreign objects (60) adhered to the lower surface of the flexible substrate (12) such that flatness of the lower surface is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: KATSUHIKO KISHIMOTO, Yoshitaka KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 9666808
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element having a small reduction rate in the luminance immediately after the start of light emission is provided. The organic electroluminescent element includes a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, a light emitting layer disposed between the electrodes, and at least one organic layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the anode, in which at least one kind of a specific compound including a fluorene structure is contained in at least one organic layer between the light emitting layer and the anode, and at least one kind of a specific compound including a carbazole structure or a fluorene structure is contained as a light emitting material in the light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Atsushi Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20150303387
    Abstract: A first aspect of the invention is an organic electroluminescent device that includes a plurality of organic compound layers between a pair of electrodes. The plurality of organic compound layers include a luminescent layer and two or more hole-transporting layers. The hole-transporting layers include a layer adjacent to the luminescent layer. The luminescent layer contains a host material and a luminescent material. The luminescent material is a metal complex containing a tri- or higher-dentate ligand. When the ionization potential of the luminescent layer is designated as Ip0, the ionization potential of the hole-transporting layer adjacent to the luminescent layer among the hole-transporting layers is designated as Ip1, and the ionization potential of the n-th hole-transporting layer from the luminescent layer among the hole-transporting layers is designated as Ipn, these values satisfy the relationship represented by the following formula (1). In formula (1) n is an integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20140299856
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element having a small reduction rate in the luminance immediately after the start of light emission is provided. The organic electroluminescent element includes a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, a light emitting layer disposed between the electrodes, and at least one organic layer disposed between the light emitting layer and the anode, in which at least one kind of a specific compound including a fluorene structure is contained in at least one organic layer between the light emitting layer and the anode, and at least one kind of a specific compound including a carbazole structure or a fluorene structure is contained as a light emitting material in the light emitting layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Atsushi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8330151
    Abstract: The organic electroluminescent element of the present invention includes at least a pair of electrodes, at least one organic light-emitting layer between the pair of electrodes, and at least one lens A on a light-extracting surface of the pair of electrodes, wherein one of the pair of electrodes is a reflective electrode, and the other is a semi-transmissive/semi-reflective electrode, and wherein a real part n1 of a refractive index of the organic light-emitting layer and a real part n2 of a refractive index of the lens A satisfy the relationship n1>n2, and the real part n2 is represented by Expression (1) described below: n2?n3 sin ?2??Expression (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: UDC Ireland Limited
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8217392
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescence element, containing: at least one pair of electrodes; at least one organic light-emitting layer disposed between the electrodes, the organic light-emitting layer comprising two phosphorescent light-emitting materials and a charge-transporting material, wherein the organic light-emitting element is a white organic light-emitting element, and the charge-transporting material is a hole-transporting material, and wherein one of the two phosphorescent light-emitting materials is a platinum complex expressed by the following general formula 1, and the other is an iridium complex expressed by any one of the following general formulae 2A to 2C:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8183586
    Abstract: The invention provides an organic EL device including an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion including two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers including plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Patent number: 8174001
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including at least two light-emitting layers disposed between an anode and a cathode, wherein the at least two light-emitting layers include a light-emitting layer A that contains an electron transporting light-emitting material and a hole transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the electron transporting light-emitting material gradually increases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer A, and a light-emitting layer B that contains a hole transporting light-emitting material and an electron transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the hole transporting light-emitting material gradually decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer B. An organic EL element with high light-emission efficiency and excellent durability is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Manabu Tobise, Masaru Kinoshita
  • Patent number: 8049407
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element that includes a pair of electrodes and a plurality of organic compound layers being disposed between the pair of electrodes. The organic compound layers include a luminescent layer containing a blue phosphorescent luminescent material and a host material having the lowest excited triplet energy (T1) of 272 kJ/mol (65 kcal/mol) or more, and hole transport layers. One of the hole transport layers is a layer adjacent to the luminescent layer, and when the ionization potentials of the luminescent layer, the hole transport layer adjacent to the luminescent layer, and another of the hole transport layers, respectively, designated to Ip1, Ip2 and Ip3, the relationship Ip1>Ip2>Ip3 is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Jiro Tsukahara, Tatsuya Igarashi, Toshihiro Ise, Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20110068357
    Abstract: The organic electroluminescent element of the present invention includes at least a pair of electrodes, at least one organic light-emitting layer between the pair of electrodes, and at least one lens A on a light-extracting surface of the pair of electrodes, wherein one of the pair of electrodes is a reflective electrode, and the other is a semi-transmissive/semi-reflective electrode, and wherein a real part n1 of a refractive index of the organic light-emitting layer and a real part n2 of a refractive index of the lens A satisfy the relationship n1>n2, and the real part n2 is represented by Expression (1) described below: n2?n3 sin ?2??Expression (1)
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20100314613
    Abstract: To provide an organic electroluminescence element, containing: at least one pair of electrodes; at least one organic light-emitting layer disposed between the electrodes, the organic light-emitting layer comprising two phosphorescent light-emitting materials and a charge-transporting material, wherein the organic light-emitting element is a white organic light-emitting element, and the charge-transporting material is a hole-transporting material, and wherein one of the two phosphorescent light-emitting materials is a platinum complex expressed by the following general formula 1, and the other is an iridium complex expressed by any one of the following general formulae 2A to 2C:
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 7800301
    Abstract: Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, at least one organic layer containing a luminescent layer and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a transparent substrate and a prism structure disposed between the first electrode or the second electrode and the transparent substrate, wherein the prism structure is disposed such that the apexes of the prisms face the transparent substrate side and the coefficient of variation in the pitch of the apexes of the prisms is 1% or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Shun-ichi Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Kitamura, Sanpei Iida, Takayuki Fujiwara
  • Publication number: 20100193820
    Abstract: The invention provides an organic EL device including an anode, a cathode, and a luminescent portion positioned between the anode and cathode, the luminescent portion including two or more luminescent layers, each of the luminescent layers including plural primary luminescent layers that emit light of different colors, and each of the primary luminescent layers having a thickness of 5 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KITAMURA
  • Patent number: 7749616
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic electroluminescent element including an anode, a cathode, and a plurality of organic compound layers including at least one organic luminescent layer between the anode and the cathode, in which the organic luminescent layer contains a host material and two or more phosphorescent materials; the organic luminescent layer is adjacent to the organic compound layers at both an anode side and a cathode side thereof; the organic compound layer disposed adjacent to the organic luminescent layer at the anode side thereby has a thickness of 50 nm or less in thickness; and the organic compound layer disposed adjacent to organic luminescent layer at the cathode side thereby contains a compound having an ionization potential of 6.0 eV or less. The present invention also provides a display device using the organic electroluminescent element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Kazuki Yamazaki, Masayuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20100123126
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescent element 10 includes a first electrode 14, an organic layer 16 including at least a light emitting layer, and a second electrode 20, disposed in this order, in which the second electrode includes, starting from the organic layer side, an Al layer 18 having a thickness of 0.1 nm to 10 nm and an Ag layer 19 having a thickness of 3 nm to 50 nm. Preferably, the organic layer includes an electron injection layer doped with an alkali metal, and a layer of an alloy of Al and Li is disposed between the organic layer and the second electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshitaka KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20090218561
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence element including at least two light-emitting layers disposed between an anode and a cathode, wherein the at least two light-emitting layers include a light-emitting layer A that contains an electron transporting light-emitting material and a hole transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the electron transporting light-emitting material gradually increases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer A, and a light-emitting layer B that contains a hole transporting light-emitting material and an electron transporting host material, wherein a concentration of the hole transporting light-emitting material gradually decreases from an anode side toward a cathode side of the light-emitting layer B. An organic EL element with high light-emission efficiency and excellent durability is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka KITAMURA, Manabu TOBISE, Masaru KINOSHITA
  • Patent number: 7560729
    Abstract: The invention discloses an organic electroluminescent device having an anode, a cathode and a plurality of organic compound layers provided between the anode and the cathode and including a light-emitting layer, wherein the light-emitting layer contains two light-emitting materials including a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and a host material; and when three or more organic compound layers are provided between the light-emitting layer and the anode, and when the ionization potential of the light-emitting layer is Ip1 and the ionization potentials of the three or more organic compound layers are Ip2, Ip3, . . . , and Ipn in the order starting from the light-emitting layer, the formula (1): Ip1>Ip2>Ip3> . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Masayuki Mishima
  • Patent number: 7453204
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light emitting element comprising a pair of electrodes and one or more organic compound layers including a luminescent layer disposed between the pair of electrodes. In this structure, the luminescent layer includes at least one charge transport material and at least one light emitting material, and comprises a laminated structure having two or more laminates including a plurality of layers including the light emitting material in different concentrations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20060220011
    Abstract: The invention discloses an organic electroluminescent device having an anode, a cathode and a plurality of organic compound layers provided between the anode and the cathode and including a light-emitting layer, wherein the light-emitting layer contains two light-emitting materials including a phosphorescent light-emitting material, and a host material; and when three or more organic compound layers are provided between the light-emitting layer and the anode, and when the ionization potential of the light-emitting layer is Ip1 and the ionization potentials of the three or more organic compound layers are Ip2, Ip3, . . . , and Ipn in the order starting from the light-emitting layer, the formula (1): Ip1>Ip2>Ip3> . . .
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Kitamura, Masayuki Mishima
  • Publication number: 20060105202
    Abstract: A first aspect of the invention is an organic electroluminescent device that includes a plurality of organic compound layers between a pair of electrodes. The plurality of organic compound layers include a luminescent layer and two or more hole-transporting layers. The hole-transporting layers include a layer adjacent to the luminescent layer. The luminescent layer contains a host material and a luminescent material. The luminescent material is a metal complex containing a tri- or higher-dentate ligand. When the ionization potential of the luminescent layer is designated as Ip0, the ionization potential of the hole-transporting layer adjacent to the luminescent layer among the hole-transporting layers is designated as Ip1, and the ionization potential of the n-th hole-transporting layer from the luminescent layer among the hole-transporting layers is designated as IPn, these values satisfy the relationship represented by the following formula (1). In formula (1) n is an integer of 2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventor: Yoshitaka Kitamura