Patents by Inventor Yuhko Hisada

Yuhko Hisada 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: 8031282
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate has a structure that prevents a drain extraction line from breaking without a plurality of active elements such as thin film transistor elements, metal-insulator-metal elements, MOS transistor elements, diodes, and varistors being disposed, and is suited for use in a large-size liquid crystal television or a like liquid crystal display device equipped with a large-size liquid crystal display panel. The active matrix substrate includes an active element connected, via a drain extraction line, to a storage capacitor upper electrode, wherein the drain extraction line has at least two routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuji Kurihara, Yuhko Hisada, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Tomokazu Ohtsubo
  • Patent number: 7884906
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a substrate for liquid crystal display by means of which a generation of air bubbles in a liquid crystal layer after charging a liquid crystal can be prevented, and a liquid crystal display having a good display quality level can be obtained at a high yield, and to provide a liquid crystal display unit provided with such substrate for liquid crystal display. The present invention is directed to a substrate for liquid crystal display, comprising a projection for controlling alignments of liquid crystal molecules, wherein a slit is provided in the projection for controlling alignments of liquid crystal molecules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayuki Tsuji, Toshihide Tsubata, Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20110025937
    Abstract: The active matrix substrate of the present invention is the active matrix substrate in which the faulty connection in a storage capacitor element as caused by a short circuit between storage capacitor electrodes due to a conductive foreign material or a pinhole in an insulating layer or by a short circuit between a data signal line and a storage capacitor upper electrode can be repaired with ease.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Toshifumi YAGI, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 7834946
    Abstract: A display device includes multiple signal lines that are connected to multiple pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes. The distance between one end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of a first signal line is greater than the distance between one end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of a second signal line. Alternatively, the distance between the other end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of an adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the first pixel electrode from the first signal line, is greater than the distance between the other end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of another adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the second pixel electrode from the second signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada
  • Patent number: 7830467
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor, a scanning signal line, and a data signal line disposed on the substrate. A gate electrode of the transistor is connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode thereof is connected to the data signal line, and a drain electrode thereof is connected to a pixel electrode; and an upper electrode is disposed so as to oppose a storage capacitor wiring pattern at least via an insulating layer. Within a pixel region, the upper electrode includes three divided electrodes in a region opposing the storage capacitor wiring pattern, and a central divided electrode of the three divided electrodes has the smallest area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yagi, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20100188437
    Abstract: A display device prevents luminance unevenness that occurs in the case of inversion driving being performed, and performs high quality image display, while selectively scanning two lines of picture elements constituting a single pixel using a single gate wiring, as in the case of multi-primary color image display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryohki Itoh, Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 7728943
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20100001279
    Abstract: It is possible to decrease block segmentation and flickering due to separate exposure in an active matrix substrate while avoiding decreased aperture ratio, increased parasitic capacity and complication in manufacturing process. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit including a first-type TFT and a second-type TFT, respectively, are disposed alternately relative to each other in both directions of row and column in an active matrix substrate. In the first-type and the second-type TFTs, a pattern misalignment of the drain electrode with respect to the gate electrode in an up-down direction will increase/decrease a gate-drain parasitic capacity Cgd in reverse ways. By disposing these two types of TFTs in uniform dispersion, the increase/decrease in the parasitic capacity Cgd caused by pattern misalignment occurring at the time of manufacture are averaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuhko HISADA
  • Publication number: 20090290080
    Abstract: A display device includes multiple signal lines that are connected to multiple pixel electrodes including first and second pixel electrodes. The distance between one end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of a first signal line is greater than the distance between one end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of a second signal line. Alternatively, the distance between the other end of the first pixel electrode and the centerline of an adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the first pixel electrode from the first signal line, is greater than the distance between the other end of the second pixel electrode and the centerline of another adjacent signal line, which is located on the opposite side of the second pixel electrode from the second signal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada
  • Patent number: 7612839
    Abstract: It is possible to decrease block segmentation and flickering due to separate exposure in an active matrix substrate while avoiding decreased aperture ratio, increased parasitic capacity and complication in manufacturing process. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit including a first-type TFT and a second-type TFT, respectively, are disposed alternately relative to each other in both directions of row and column in an active matrix substrate. In the first-type and the second-type TFTs, a pattern misalignment of the drain electrode with respect to the gate electrode in an up-down direction will increase/decrease a gate-drain parasitic capacity Cgd in reverse ways. By disposing these two types of TFTs in uniform dispersion, the increase/decrease in the parasitic capacity Cgd caused by pattern misalignment occurring at the time of manufacture are averaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20090244428
    Abstract: A substrate for a display device includes an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed there between. The active matrix substrate includes a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and the opposed substrate includes a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein the substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode, and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of the electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Toshihide TSUBATA, Nobuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Yuhko HISADA
  • Publication number: 20090225015
    Abstract: A display device that can prevent linear unevenness (uneven line) generated in one direction of a display image and can provide excellent display qualities includes a pixel including sub-pixels of n-colors (where n is an integer of 4 or more), and a signal line arranged to drive sub-pixels, the pixel and the signal line arranged to drive sub-pixels being disposed in a display region. The signal line arranged to drive sub-pixels is disposed on a display region center side of a sub-pixel positioned at least one terminal of the display region. The signal line arranged to drive sub-pixels is not disposed on a non-display region side of the sub-pixel positioned at the at least one terminal. The sub-pixel positioned at the at least one terminal has a color other than a color with the highest luminance of the n-colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryoki Itoh, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 7505106
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 7499140
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Nakagawa, Toshihide Tsubata, Nobuyoshi Nagashima, Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20090051638
    Abstract: A display device improves brightness while minimizing an increase in the number of source drivers. When a value obtained by dividing the length of a display screen in a row direction by the number of pixels in the row direction is a length corresponding to one pixel in the row direction, one period of color arrangement in the row direction is a length corresponding to two pixels. One such period of color arrangement include two groups of subpixels that include first subpixel of the light's three primary colors of red (R), green (G) and blue (B), that are arranged in a row and that have the same subpixel configuration; and at least one additional subpixel. Scanning lines extending in the row direction and signal lines extending in the column direction are connected to the first subpixels and the at least one additional subpixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Horiuchi, Yuhko Hisada, Tomoo Furukawa, Ryohki Itoh, Takahara Yamada
  • Publication number: 20090040243
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, in an even-numbered signal line group, the arrangement sequence of the first and second signal lines is reversed between in a display area and in a non-display area, and the same goes for the arrangement sequence of the third and fourth signal lines. The ends of the first to sixteenth signal lines in the non-display area are connected to the first to sixteenth individual drivers, respectively. An odd-numbered individual driver and an even-numbered individual driver each output a corresponding one of drive signals of opposite polarity. Thus, the polarities of subpixels of the same color arranged in a first direction D1 (horizontal direction) differ between the subpixels connected to the odd-numbered signal line group and the subpixels connected to the even-numbered signal line group. That is, all of the subpixels having the same color arranged in the horizontal direction do not have the same polarity. This helps reduce a horizontal shadow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Inventors: Yuhko Hisada, Ryohki Itoh, Takaharu Yamada, Hideki Morii, Takayuki Mizunaga
  • Publication number: 20090015745
    Abstract: The present invention is a substrate for a display device comprising an active matrix substrate and an opposed substrate which are opposed to each other with a display medium layer interposed therebetween, said active matrix substrate including a pixel electrode arranged in a matrix shape on the side of the display medium layer and said opposed substrate including a common electrode opposing to the pixel electrode on the side of the display medium layer, wherein said substrate for a display device includes an electrode slit formed in one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and at least one of the electrical connecting portions of said electrode slit is provided outside of a light-blocking region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi NAKAGAWA, Toshihide TSUBATA, Nobuyoshi NAGASHIMA, Yuhko HISADA
  • Publication number: 20090009673
    Abstract: It is possible to decrease block segmentation and flickering due to separate exposure in an active matrix substrate while avoiding decreased aperture ratio, increased parasitic capacity and complication in manufacturing process. A first pixel circuit and a second pixel circuit including a first-type TFT and a second-type TFT, respectively, are disposed alternately relative to each other in both directions of row and column in an active matrix substrate. In the first-type and the second-type TFTs, a pattern misalignment of the drain electrode with respect to the gate electrode in an up-down direction will increase/decrease a gate-drain parasitic capacity Cgd in reverse ways. By disposing these two types of TFTs in uniform dispersion, the increase/decrease in the parasitic capacity Cgd caused by pattern misalignment occurring at the time of manufacture are averaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yuhko Hisada
  • Publication number: 20080309841
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate comprises a thin film transistor disposed at the crossing point of a scanning signal line with a data signal line on the substrate, with a gate electrode of the transistor being connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode thereof being connected to the data signal line and a drain electrode thereof being connected to an interconnection electrode, and a storage capacitor upper electrode disposed so as to oppose a storage capacitor wiring pattern at least via an insulating layer and connected to the interconnection electrode and a pixel electrode. The storage capacitor upper electrode comprises at least three divided electrodes in the region opposing the storage capacitor wiring pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Inventors: TOSHIFUMI YAGI, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Yuhko Hisada
  • Patent number: 7430024
    Abstract: An active matrix substrate includes a thin film transistor disposed at the crossing point of a scanning signal line with a data signal line on the substrate, with a gate electrode of the transistor being connected to the scanning signal line, a source electrode thereof being connected to the data signal line and a drain electrode thereof being connected to an interconnection electrode, and a storage capacitor upper electrode disposed so as to oppose a storage capacitor wiring pattern at least via an insulating layer and connected to the interconnection electrode and a pixel electrode. The storage capacitor upper electrode includes at least three divided electrodes in the region opposing the storage capacitor wiring pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshifumi Yagi, Toshihide Tsubata, Masanori Takeuchi, Yuhko Hisada