Patents by Inventor Yukito Saitoh

Yukito Saitoh 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: 20170123267
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight that emits unpolarized blue light, a reflective polarizing layer which is provided on an emission side of the backlight and converts blue light to linearly polarized light, a quantum rod layer which is provided on a blue linearly polarized light emission side of the reflective polarizing layer and converts blue linearly polarized light to red linearly polarized light and green linearly polarized light using multiple quantum rods, and a liquid crystal panel disposed on a red linearly polarized light and green linearly polarized light emission side. In the quantum rod layer, a polarization direction of the blue linearly polarized light emitted from the reflective polarizing layer and a long axis direction of the quantum rods are parallel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yujiro YANAI, Yukito SAITOH
  • Patent number: 9638953
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a viewer-side polarizing plate 1, a liquid crystal cell 11, a backlight-side polarizing plate 21, and a backlight unit 31; in which a three-wavelength (RGB) backlight light source having a narrow half bandwidth of the light emission intensity spectrum is used, and the viewer-side polarizing plate includes, for example, a first absorption material which has a maximum value of absorbance in a wavelength range of 470 nm to 510 nm and has a peak of the absorbance full width at half maximum of which is 50 nm or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko Watano, Yukito Saitoh, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20170115528
    Abstract: An aspect of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal panel including a visible side polarizing plate, a liquid crystal cell, and a backlight side polarizing plate, in which the backlight side polarizing plate is a reflective polarizing plate of which a degree of polarization P550 nm with respect to light at a wavelength of 550 nm is greater than or equal to 99.90%, and the reflective polarizing plate and the liquid crystal cell are integrally laminated, a liquid crystal display device, and a reflective polarizing plate and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsufumi OHMURO, Yukito SAITOH, Takashi YONEMOTO
  • Patent number: 9632229
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having high transmittance and a high color reproduction region, which includes a backlight unit including a light conversion member; and a liquid crystal cell and in which the light conversion member includes a light conversion layer containing a fluorescent material and an optical film arranged on both surfaces of the light conversion layer, the optical film includes an optical thin film forming an air interface, and a layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film, the liquid crystal display device satisfies n(535)<nu(535), n(535)×d is in a specific range, transmittance of a laminated body of the optical thin film and the layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film is in a specific range, and the backlight unit emits blue light, green light, and red light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoyoshi Yamada, Tatsuya Oba, Yukito Saitoh, Katsufumi Ohmuro, Akiko Watano
  • Publication number: 20170108726
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device in which color reproducibility and brightness are improved. The liquid crystal display device includes a backlight that emits unpolarized blue light, a quantum rod layer which is provided on an emission side of the backlight and converts some of blue light to red linearly polarized light and green linearly polarized light using multiple quantum rods, a reflective polarizing layer which is provided on a side from which the red linearly polarized light and the green linearly polarized light of the quantum rod layer are emitted, and a liquid crystal panel disposed on a blue linearly polarized light emission side of the reflective polarizing layer, and a long axis direction of the quantum rods in the quantum rod layer and a polarization direction of the blue linearly polarized light emitted from the reflective polarizing layer are parallel to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yujiro YANAI, Yukito SAITOH
  • Publication number: 20170102490
    Abstract: The present invention provides a light conversion film capable of suppressing a decrease in light emission efficiency even when the film is continuously irradiated with light and suppressing a change in degree of polarization even under a wet heat environment, a method for manufacturing the same, a laminate, and a method for manufacturing the same. The light conversion film of the present invention includes a polymer, and quantum rods, in which the quantum rods are aligned such that a major axis of each of the quantum rods is parallel to one direction parallel to a surface of the light conversion film, a moisture content is 1.0% or less, and an oxygen permeability coefficient is 200 cc·20 ?m/m2·day·atm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko WATANO, Toshio HARA, Hideaki ITO, Yukito SAITOH, Yujiro YANAI
  • Publication number: 20170075052
    Abstract: Provided is a wavelength conversion member, including: a wavelength conversion layer containing a quantum dot which is excited by excitation light and emits fluorescent light; and an adjacent layer directly laminated on the wavelength conversion layer, in which the shape of an interface between the wavelength conversion layer and the adjacent layer includes an irregular shape formed of a concave portion and a convex portion. Provided are a backlight unit, a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal panel, and a liquid crystal display device: including the wavelength conversion member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Yujiro YANAI, Naoyoshi YAMADA, Takashi YONEMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170017022
    Abstract: Disclosed is an optical conversion member, including an optical conversion layer containing quantum dot emitting fluorescent light and an anisotropic light scattering layer having I (0°)/I (40°) of 3 or greater, in which I (0°) indicates a transmission light intensity of the anisotropic light scattering layer at the time of allowing light to be incident on the anisotropic light scattering layer from a normal direction of a surface of the anisotropic light scattering layer, and I (40°) indicates a transmission light intensity of the anisotropic light scattering layer in an azimuth in which a transmission light intensity of the anisotropic light scattering layer at the time of allowing light to be incident on the anisotropic light scattering layer from a direction of a tilt angle of 40° with respect to the normal direction of the surface of the anisotropic light scattering layer becomes a minimum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YONEMOTO, Yukito SAITOH, Megumi SEKIGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170017118
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal panel member including a visible side polarizer, a liquid crystal cell, and a backlight side polarizer; and an optical conversion member including an optical conversion layer containing a quantum dot emitting fluorescent light which is excited by incident excitation light, in which the optical conversion member is integrally laminated on a backlight side surface of the liquid crystal panel member, a liquid crystal display device, a polarizing plate, and a polarizing plate protective film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi YONEMOTO, Yukito SAITOH
  • Publication number: 20160349573
    Abstract: Provided are an optical sheet member including an optical conversion sheet containing a fluorescent material which absorbs at least a part of light in a wavelength range of 380 nm to 480 nm, converts the absorbed light into light in a wavelength range longer than that of the absorbed light, and re-emits the converted light, and a wavelength selective reflective polarizer functioning in the wavelength range of at least a part of the light in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 480 nm, in which both of front brightness and a color reproduction range are improved in a case of being incorporated into a display device using backlight which emits light having at least a blue wavelength range; and the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsufumi OHMURO, Yukito SAITOH, Takashi YONEMOTO, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA, Yoji ITO
  • Publication number: 20160342003
    Abstract: Provided are a brightness enhancement film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, in which the reflection polarizer includes at least two light reflection layers formed by immobilizing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, one light reflection layer of the reflection layers is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a rod-like liquid crystal compound, and the other light reflection layer is a layer formed of a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a disk-like liquid crystal compound, and an optical sheet member including the brightness enhancement film, and a liquid crystal display device including the optical sheet member. The brightness enhancement film of the present invention has high brightness and is able to suppress an oblique change in the shade at the time of being incorporated in a liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Jun TAKEDA, Yuki MATSUDA, Nobuyuki AKUTAGAWA, Kotaro YASUDA, Katsufumi OHMURO, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA, Akiko WATANO, Yukito SAITOH, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Wataru HOSHINO, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20160170114
    Abstract: The present invention provides a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate, and a reflection polarizer, including a first light reflection layer, a second light reflection layer, and a third light reflection layer from the ?/4 plate side sequentially, the light reflection layers being light reflection layers formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, and including blue, green and red light reflection layers, and Rth(550) of the first light reflection layer and Rth(550) of the second light reflection layer having inverse signs; and a luminance-enhancing film including a ?/4 plate and a reflection polarizer including at least a light reflection layer formed of a rod-like cholesteric liquid crystal material and a light reflection layer formed of a disk-like cholesteric liquid crystal material. The luminance-enhancing film has high luminance and is able to suppress an oblique change in the color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko WATANO, Yukito SAITOH, Katsufumi OHMURO, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI, Hiroyuki ISHIKAWA, Kotaro YASUDA, Hideyuki NISHIKAWA, Yuki MATSUDA, Wataru HOSHINO
  • Patent number: 9366793
    Abstract: A circularly polarizing plate includes a polarizing film, a first optically anisotropic layer, and a second optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which the first optically anisotropic layer contains a twisted aligned liquid crystal compound of which a helical axis is a thickness direction thereof, a helix angle of the liquid crystal compound is 28.6±10°, an absorption axis of the polarizing film and an in-plane slow axis of the second optically anisotropic layer are parallel or orthogonal to each other, ?nd and ReB(550) respectively fall in predetermined value ranges. The circularly polarizing plate can sufficiently suppress the mixing of black with other colors in a front direction when being stuck on a display apparatus. A retardation plate used for the circularly polarizing plate and an organic EL display apparatus that have the circularly polarizing plate are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukito Saitoh, Hiroshi Sato, Mitsuyoshi Ichihashi
  • Publication number: 20160161801
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a viewer-side polarizing plate 1, a liquid crystal cell 11, a backlight-side polarizing plate 21, and a backlight unit 31; in which a three-wavelength (RGB) backlight light source having a narrow half bandwidth of the light emission intensity spectrum is used, and the viewer-side polarizing plate includes, for example, a first absorption material which has a maximum value of absorbance in a wavelength range of 470 nm to 510 nm and has a peak of the absorbance full width at half maximum of which is 50 nm or lower.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akiko WATANO, Yukito SAITOH, Katsufumi OHMURO, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160161657
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device having high transmittance and a high color reproduction region, which includes a backlight unit including a light conversion member; and a liquid crystal cell and in which the light conversion member includes a light conversion layer containing a fluorescent material and an optical film arranged on both surfaces of the light conversion layer, the optical film includes an optical thin film forming an air interface, and a layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film, the liquid crystal display device satisfies n(535)<nu(535), n(535)×d is in a specific range, transmittance of a laminated body of the optical thin film and the layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film is in a specific range, and the backlight unit emits blue light, green light, and red light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoyoshi YAMADA, Tatsuya OBA, Yukito SAITOH, Katsufumi OHMURO, Akiko WATANO
  • Publication number: 20160154276
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal cell 21, a backlight side polarizer 12, an optical thin film 1 which forms an air interface, and a backlight unit 31, in this order. The liquid crystal display device satisfies n (535)<nu (535) and n (535)×d is 1.15-1.25 ?m, 1.42-1.52 ?m or 1.69-1.79 ?m in which n (535) and nu (535) represent a refractive index of the optical thin film and a layer directly adjacent to the optical thin film, respectively, and d represents a thickness of the optical thin film. The liquid crystal display device is capable of matching a peak of light transmittance to light emission peak wavelength of emission line light of RGB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Katsufumi OHMURO, Akiko WATANO
  • Publication number: 20160091756
    Abstract: The present invention provides a member for projection image display, including a reflection layer and a retardation layer, wherein the reflection layer includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer exhibiting selective reflection in a visible light region, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer is a layer formed from a liquid crystal composition containing a discotic liquid crystal compound, and a front phase difference of the retardation layer is in a range of 50 nm to 400 nm; and a projection image display system which includes the above member for projection image display, wherein the retardation layer is disposed on an incident light side relative to the reflection layer, and the incident light is p-polarized light that vibrates in a direction parallel to a plane of incidence, which is capable of displaying a clear image having high reflectance and high transmittance, without a problem of a double image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiko WATANO, Yujiro YANAI, Yukito SAITOH, Mitsuyoshi ICHIHASHI
  • Publication number: 20160085102
    Abstract: An optical sheet member includes a polarizing plate including a polarizer (A); an optical conversion member (D); and a brightness enhancement film including a reflection polarizer (B), in which the brightness enhancement film has a reflection center wavelength range of 400 nm to 500, and the optical conversion member (D) converts a part of blue light which is transmitted through polarizer (B) and is incident on the optical conversion member (D), and has an emission center wavelength range of 400 nm to 500 nm and which has an emission center wavelength range of 500 nm to 600 nm and red light which has an emission center wavelength range of 600 nm to 700 nm, and transmits a part of the blue light. When the optical sheet member is incorporated in an image display device, front brightness, contrast, and a color reproducing region are enhanced, and color unevenness is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Katsufumi OHMURO, Yukito SAITOH, Akiko WATANO
  • Publication number: 20160085101
    Abstract: An optical sheet member includes a polarizing plate including a polarizer, a brightness enhancement film including a reflection polarizer, and a ?/4 plate, in which the reflection polarizer includes a first light reflecting layer which has a reflection center wavelength range of 430 nm to 480 nm, and is formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase emitting circular polarization light, a second light reflecting layer which has a reflection center wavelength range of 500 nm to 600 nm, and a third light reflecting layer which has a reflection center wavelength range of 600 nm to 650 nm, and both formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase emitting circular polarization light, and the brightness enhancement film includes the ?/4 plate satisfying 550 nm/4-25 nm<Re(550)<550 nm/4+25 nm between the polarizer and the reflection polarizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Katsufumi OHMURO, Akiko WATANO, Hiroshi SATO
  • Publication number: 20160077259
    Abstract: The light emitting screen of the present invention includes: a blue light emitting layer emitting blue light by being excited with first excitation light; a green light emitting layer which is disposed on the blue light emitting layer and emits green light by being excited with second excitation light; a red light emitting layer which is disposed on the green light emitting layer and emits red light by being excited with third excitation light; a first selective reflection layer which is disposed between the blue light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer; and a second selective reflection layer which is disposed between the green light emitting layer and the red light emitting layer, wherein the blue light emitting layer, the green light emitting layer, and the red light emitting layer contain quantum rods or quantum dots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yukito SAITOH, Yujiro YANAI, Akiko WATANO, Takashi YONEMOTO