Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hitachi, Ltd.

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Akio Amano

Tomio Ono

Tomoaki Sawabe

Yasushi Shinjo

Tomoko Sugizaki

Keiji Sugi

Shintaro Enomoto

Daimotsu Kato

Hiroki Iwanaga

Yukitami Mizuno

Nobuo Hataoka

Akira Ichikawa

Fumihiko Aiga

Kenji Todori

Toshiya Yonehara

Kenji Fujinaga

Hayato Kakizoe

Naomi Shida

Hideyuki Nakao

Kenji Shimomura

Hideto Furuyama

Katsuyuki Naito

Makoto Shioya

Takahiro Sato

Mariko Okude

Shinji Murai

Toshiaki Suzuki

Nobuyoshi Saito

Soshiro Kuzunuki

Isao Takasu

Akiko Hirao

Yujiro Hara

Atsushi Wada

Isao Amemiya

Michio Morioka

Toshiyuki Odaka

Shinya Ohtsuji

Masahito Togami

Toshiyuki Aritsuka

Tadashi Kamiwaki

Taeko I Urano

Kazuaki Ootsuka

Toshihiro Kujirai

Tetsuo Takemura

Shunichi Yajima

Kazuaki Otsuka

Ryujiro Muramatsu

Yasushi Shinjiyo

Manabu Niie

Yuko Imamura

Kimito Sakai

A photoelectric conversion device in an embodiment includes a first photoelectric conversion part including a first transparent electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a first counter electrode and a second photoelectric conversion part including a second transparent electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and a second counter electrode, the first photoelectric conversion part and the second photoelectric conversion part being provided on a transparent substrate. The first counter electrode and the second transparent electrode are electrically connected by a connection part. As for the first photoelectric conversion layer and the second photoelectric conversion layer, adjacent portions of the adjacent first and second photoelectric conversion layers are electrically separated by an inactive region having electrical resistance higher than that of the first and second photoelectric conversion layers.

Photoelectric conversion device and manufacturing method thereof

A photoelectric conversion device includes: a substrate; a first photoelectric conversion element including a first substrate electrode, a first photoelectric conversion layer, and a first counter electrode; a second photoelectric conversion element including a second substrate electrode, a second photoelectric conversion layer, and a second counter electrode; and a connection including a groove, a conductive portion and a conductive layer, the conductive portion being provided in the groove and including a part of the first counter electrode, and the conductive portion and the conductive layer electrically connecting the first counter electrode and the second substrate electrode. The conductive layer overlaps the first counter electrode on an edge of the groove, and a total thickness of the conductive portion and the conductive layer is larger than a thickness of the first counter electrode.

Photoelectric conversion device and method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent element includes a substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic layer and a first conductive unit. The substrate is light-transmissive. The second electrode is provided between the substrate and the first electrode. The second electrode is light-transmissive. The second electrode includes a first region and a second region. A direction connecting the first region and the second region intersects a first direction connecting the substrate and the first electrode. The organic layer is provided between the second electrode and the first electrode. The first conductive unit is provided between the first region and a portion of the substrate. The first conductive unit is electrically connected with the second electrode. The first conductive unit includes a third region and a fourth region. A portion of the fourth region is disposed between the substrate and at least a portion of the third region.

Organic electroluminescent element, lighting device, and lighting system

An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second substrates, first and second electrodes, an insulating layer, an organic light emitting layer, and an intermediate layer. The first electrode is provided on the first substrate. The insulating layer is provided on the first electrode. The insulating layer includes first and second openings. The second electrode includes first and second conductive parts. The first conductive part covers the first opening. The second conductive part covers the second opening. The organic light emitting layer includes first and second light emitting parts. The first light emitting part is provided between the first electrode and the first conductive part. The second light emitting part is provided between the first electrode and the second conductive part. The second substrate is provided on a stacked body including above. The intermediate layer is provided between the stacked body and the second substrate.

Organic electroluminescent device, illumination apparatus, and illumination system

According to one embodiment, the organic electroluminescent device includes an anode, a cathode provided apart from the anode, and a luminous layer. The luminous layer is disposed between the anode and the cathode and contains a host material and a luminous dopant. The host material includes a polymer having a skeleton represented by Formula 1 below in a repeating unit, and a number of repetitions being 20 to 10,000. 

Organic electroluminescent device

An organic electroluminescent device includes first and second electrode and an organic light emitting layer. The first electrode has an upper face. The organic light emitting layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic light emitting layer. The second electrode includes a plurality of conductive parts. The conductive parts extend in a first direction parallel to the upper face and are arranged in a second direction. The second direction is parallel to the upper face and intersects with the first direction. When a length of each of the conductive parts in the second direction is set to W1 (micrometer), and a pitch of each of the conductive parts is set to P1 (micrometer). The W1 and the P1 satisfy a relationship of W1&#x2267;&#x2212;647(1&#x2212;W1/P1)+511 and a relationship of W1&#x2266;&#x2212;882(1&#x2212;W1/P1)+847.

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent element includes a first electrode, an organic layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is light-transmissive. The organic layer is provided on the first electrode. The second electrode is provided on the organic layer. The second electrode is light-reflective and includes a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion. The first conductive portion extends in a first direction. The second conductive portion extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second conductive portion intersects the first conductive portion. A length in the first direction of the first conductive portion is longer than 1 mm and not more than 47 mm. A length in the second direction of the second conductive portion is longer than 1 mm and not more than 47 mm.

Organic electroluminescent element, lighting device, lighting system, and method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent element

In general, according to one embodiment, an illumination device includes a light emitting unit, a connection unit, a containing unit, and a second sealing unit. The light emitting unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an organic electroluminescent element, and a first sealing unit. The organic electroluminescent element is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first sealing unit seals circumferential edge portions between the first substrate and the second substrate. The connection unit supplies power to the organic electroluminescent element. The containing unit has a space being airtight in an interior of the containing unit. The containing unit contains the light emitting unit inside the space. The second sealing unit is provided in the containing unit. The second sealing unit seals between a portion of the unit extending outside the containing unit and the containing unit.

Illumination device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an organic light emitting layer and an optical layer. The first electrode has a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface and is light transmissive. The second electrode faces a portion of the first major surface. The organic light emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic light emitting layer and the first electrode are disposed between the optical layer and the second electrode. The optical layer is able to transit between a first state where a traveling direction of light emitted from the organic light emitting layer is changed and a second state having a smaller degree of the change in the traveling direction of the light than the first state.

Organic electroluminescent device, lighting apparatus, and method for manufacturing the organic electroluminescent device

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent device includes a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes and an organic light-emitting layer. The first electrode includes a first major surface and is optical transparency. The second electrodes extend in a first direction parallel to the first major surface and are separated from each other in a second direction parallel to the first major surface and perpendicular to the first direction. An optical transmittance of the second electrodes is lower than an optical transmittance of the first electrode. A distance along the second direction between a line extending in the first direction and a side surface of each of the second electrodes continuously increases and decreases along the first direction. The side surface is unparallel to the first major surface. The organic light-emitting layer is provided between the first electrode and the second electrodes.

Organic electroluminescent device and lighting apparatus

According to one embodiment, an organic electroluminescent element includes: a first electrode having a first and a second major surfaces; a second electrode opposed to part of the first major surface; an organic luminescent layer provided between the first and the second electrodes; an optical layer having a third major surface opposed to the second major surface and a fourth major surface on opposite side from the third major surface. The fourth major surface includes a first region overlapping the second electrode, and a second region not overlapping the second electrode. The fourth major surface includes a first concave-convex provided in the first region and a second concave-convex provided in the second region. A planarization layer is provided on the second region and burying the second concave-convex.

Organic electroluminescent element, lighting apparatus, and method for manufacturing organic electroluminescent element

According to one embodiment, an organic EL display includes a substrate and a pixel. The pixel is disposed on the substrate and includes a first color displaying portion and a second color displaying portion. The first color displaying portion has a first organic light emitting layer. The second color displaying portion has a second organic light emitting layer having an emission spectrum different from an emission spectrum of the first organic light emitting layer. The first color displaying portion has two sub-pixels. One of the two sub-pixels has a color filter.

Organic elelectroluminescent display

According to one embodiment, there is provided an organic light-emitting diode including an anode and a cathode which are arranged apart from each other, and an emissive layer interposed between the anode and the cathode and including a host material and an emitting dopant. The host material includes a polymer containing dibenzothiophene backbones represented by the following formula (1) as repeating units: wherein n is an integer of from 20 to 10,000.

Organic light-emitting diode, display and illuminating device

Provided is a voice communication device for carrying out voice communication among a plurality of locations, including: a sound source direction identification block for identifying a direction of a sound source; a voice sender block for sending the collected voice to a different location; a voice receiver block for receiving a voice from a different location; a player block for playing the received voice; a playing information setting block for setting playing information for the voice being played; a speaker volume storage block for acquiring the direction of the sound source for which the playing information is set from the sound source direction identification block and storing the direction of the sound source in association with the playing information; and a voice manipulating block for acquiring the playing information corresponding to the direction of the sound source of the voice and manipulating the voice based on the playing information.

Voice communication device, voice communication method, and voice communication program

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Akio Amano