Konica Minolta, Inc.

Nippon Soda Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Konica-Minolta Holdings, Inc.

Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kayaba Industry Company, Ltd.

Caterpillar Sarl

Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

Optrex Corporation

Shigeru Kojima

Kazuhiro Yoshida

Takeshi Hakii

Kunimasa Hiyama

Akiyoshi Ueda

Katsuya Shirai

Toshiyuki Kinoshita

Shun Furukawa

Yutaka Takakura

Atsushi Toda

Yoshifumi Mori

Tomoyuki Nakayama

Masayuki Takano

Eiji Akahane

Yoriko Nakayama

Nobumi Toyoura

Akira Nakada

Takeshi Ono

Hideo Taka

Akio Machida

Ichiro Fujiwara

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

Tetsuo Urabe

Takaaki Kuroki

Toshiharu Suzuki

Isamu Kasahara

Yutaka Nakagawa

Takatoshi Suematsu

Kazuo Genda

Hiroyuki Yamanaka

Fumihiko Nagasaki

Hideo Obi

Kenji Gondo

Yasushi Yasuda

Tomohiko Baba

Noriaki Kawahara

Yuji Katsuyama

Shusaku Kon

Makoto Funabora

Hiroaki Nishikawa

Yoshiyuki Iiyoshi

Humihiko Nagasaki

Toru Tsukamoto

Humiko Nagasaki

Christopher Michael Burton

Takahiko Nojima

Yosuke Sone

An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent electrode including a substrate having thereon a conductive layer containing silver as a main component, wherein the transparent electrode has an organic functional layer between the substrate and the conductive layer; and the organic functional layer contains a first organic compound represented by Formula (1) and a second organic compound having a different structure from a structure of the first organic compound, 

Transparent electrode and electronic device

An object of the present invention is to provide a transparent organic electroluminescence element in which durability is excellent, a transparent lead-out electrode of low resistance is provided, and there is no uncomfortable feeling in visibility of the entire element. The transparent organic electroluminescence element according to the present invention is a transparent organic electroluminescence element including: at least an organic electroluminescence element portion and a lead-out electrode portion, in which two-sided light emission is capable of being performed, wherein a total light transmittance (%) of the lead-out electrode portion in a visible light range is in a range of 90% to 110%, with respect to a total light transmittance (%) of the organic electroluminescence element portion in a visible light range at the time of non-light emission.

Transparent organic electroluminescence element

A transparent electrode includes: a substrate; and a conductive metal layer on the substrate. The conductive metal layer has a thin metal wire and a plating layer. The plating layer covers the thin metal wire. The transparent electrode further includes a transparent conductive layer on a surface of the substrate on a side on which the thin metal wire is formed. The transparent conductive layer covers the substrate and the conductive metal layer. The thin metal wire is formed using a metal nanoparticle ink or a metal complex ink.

Transparent electrode, method for manufacturing same, and organic electroluminescent element

Provided are: a transparent electrode which exhibits excellent resistance to high temperature and high humidity, while having surface smoothness; a method for producing this transparent electrode; and an electronic device which has improved reliability by using this transparent electrode. A transparent electrode is configured to comprise a metal thin wire pattern that is formed on one main surface of a transparent substrate using metal nanoparticles and a metal oxide layer that has a surface roughness of 5 nm or less and is formed on the main surface of the transparent substrate so as to cover the surface of the metal thin wire pattern.

Transparent electrode, method for producing transparent electrode and electronic device

A transparent electrode includes a nitrogen-containing layer constituted by using a compound containing a nitrogen atom (N), an electrode layer containing silver (Ag) as a main component, which is disposed adjacent to the nitrogen-containing layer, and two high-refractive index layers each having a higher refractive index than that of the nitrogen-containing layer, which are disposed so that the electrode layer and the nitrogen-containing layer are sandwiched between the high-refractive index layers.

Transparent electrode, electronic device, and organic electroluminescent element

A transparent conductor which includes: a conductive layer that is formed of a metal material having a thickness of 15 nm or less and a platinum group element-containing layer including at least one of Pt and Pd, wherein, when an optical admittance at an interface on a side of the admittance-adjusting layer of the conductive layer at a wavelength of 570 nm is expressed as Y=x+iyand an optical admittance at an interface on a side opposite to the admittance-adjusting layer of the conductive layer at a wavelength of 570 nm is expressed as Y=x+iy, at least one of xand xis 1.6 or more.

Transparent conductor and electronic device

In a light emitting panel, organic EL panels are laminated in a step-like shape in a front-back direction to form organic EL panel groups, and the organic EL panel groups are further laminated in a step-like shape in a left-right direction. Each of the organic EL panels comprises a power feed part at one side of the transparent support substrate in the left-right direction. The power feed part of each of the organic EL panels is aligned with other power feed parts in the front-back direction at one side of the left-right direction, and is disposed at a position that allows the power feed part to overlap with a laminate of an organic EL panel of an adjacent organic EL panel group.

Light emitting panel and method for manufacturing same

Disclosed is a white light-emitting organic electroluminescent device, which is excellent in stability of emission chromaticity over a long operation period, while having high electrical efficiency, long life, excellent storage stability and excellent color rendering properties. Also disclosed is an illuminating device using such an organic electroluminescent device. Specifically disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device having a light-emitting layer between an anode and a cathode, which is characterized by comprising a light-emitting layer A having a maximum emission wavelength of not more than 480 nm and containing a phosphorescent dopant having a maximum emission wavelength of not more than 480 nm, and a light-emitting layer B arranged between the light-emitting layer A and the anode, which has a maximum emission wavelength of not less than 510 nm and contains a phosphorescent dopant. This organic electroluminescent device is also characterized in that the concentration of the phosphorescent dopant contained in the light-emitting layer A varies in the thickness direction of the light-emitting layer A. Also specifically disclosed is an illuminating device using such a white light-emitting organic electroluminescent device.

White organic electroluminescent element and lighting device

A liquid crystal display device restraining display defects even in a structure having a potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of a liquid crystal material. An electrostatic charge stored in the vicinity of a liquid crystal layer of the liquid crystal display device as a result of the potential difference between an externally-connected electrode potential and the mean potential of the drive waveform of the liquid crystal material is dispersed by employing a capacitor or an arrester connected to ground. Accordingly, discharge of the stored charge is facilitated, and occurrence of display defects is restrained.

Liquid crystal display device

Provided is a manufacturing method by which each functional layer of various types of organic electronic elements can be uniformly formed by wet process. Specifically, a method for manufacturing an organic electronic element which uniformly emits light with high emission efficiency is provided. The method for manufacturing the organic electronic element includes a step of forming a functional layer by laminating at least an organic layer (A) and an organic layer (B) in this order on a substrate. After forming at least the organic layer (A), the organic layer (B) is applied and formed on the organic layer (A) by using a fluorine-containing solvent.

Method for manufacturing organic electronic element

An organic electroluminescent element having at least an anode, a cathode, and a light-emitting layer held between the anode and the cathode on a substrate and emitting white light. The light-emitting layer consists of three or less layers, the light-emitting material contained entirely in the light-emitting layer consists of at least four kinds of light-emitting material having different emission maximum wavelengths (&#x3bb;max). The four kinds of light emitting material have emission colors of blue, green, yellow red and red, and since one or more layers out of the three or less layers of the light-emitting layer contain two or more kinds of light-emitting material simultaneously, there is obtained an organic electroluminescent element excellent in color rendering and exhibiting high power efficiency in which variation in emission color is small even if current density varies.

Organic electroluminescent element

The present invention provides a white organic electroluminescent element which can emits white light and is free from deviation of chromaticity. This organic electroluminescent element comprises a substrate and, provided on the substrate, at least an anode, a cathode, and a light emitting layer held between the anode and the cathode. This organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that the light emitting layer contains at least three types of light emitting materials different from each other in &#x3bb; max, and the absolute value of HOMO level of the light emitting material having the shortest wavelength is smaller than the absolute value of HOMO level of the other light emitting materials.

This invention provides a multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element having an excellent electric power efficiency, a prolonged service life, an excellent storage stability, and an excellent stability of chromaticity against drive current, and a lighting system using the multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element. The multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element contains a plurality of phosphorescent dopants different from each other in luminescence wavelength and particularly exhibits white luminescence. Specifically, the multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element contains two or more phosphorescent dopants different from each other in luminescence wavelength and comprises two or more luminescent layers, the luminescent dopant being a phosphorescent dopant. The multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element is characterized in that at least one layer formed of luminescent layer A containing two or more phosphorescent dopants different from each other in luminescence wavelength in the same layer is provided, the content of the luminescent dopant having the highest concentration used in the luminescent layer A is not less than 4% by mass and not more than 20% by mass, and luminescent layer B having a maximum luminescence wavelength of not more than 480 nm is provided at a position near the cathode side as compared with the luminescent layer A.

Multicolor phosphorescent organic electroluminescent element and lighting system

To provide a work machine in which traveling devices and an implement device can be operated by common operating levers, wherein switching operation is easy and a changeover is easily confirmed. Inside a cab of the work machine, there are provided travel pedals, with which the traveling devices can be operated, and operating levers, with which the traveling devices and the implement device can be operated. A changeover switch is provided on a console positioned in the vicinity of one side of an operating sheet. The changeover switch switches over between a traveling mode, in which traveling operation is possible by the operating levers, and a work mode, in which implement operation is possible by the operating levers. The work machine has a controller which makes it possible to work by the operating levers when the travel pedal is not stepped on in the case where the work mode or traveling mode is selected by the changeover switch, and makes it possible to travel by the operating levers only when the travel pedal is stepped on in the case where the traveling mode is selected by the changeover switch.

Work machine

In a work machine equipped with a switchover means enabling selective operation of traveling devices and a work device by means of common operating levers, switchover can easily be performed and also easily recognized. In a work machine having traveling devices and a work device, operating levers that are capable of operating the traveling devices and the work device are respectively disposed at the sides of an operating seat. A foot switch connected to a controller is disposed in the proximity of and operable with a foot of an operator seated at the operating seat. While the foot switch is being operated with the foot, the traveling devices are operated by the operating levers through the controller. While the foot switch is not being operated, the work device is operated by means of the operating levers through the controller.

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Shigeru Kojima