Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

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Takanori Fujii

Yuji Hamada

Kenichi Shibata

Takeshi Sano

Masayuki Fujita

Yoshitaka Nishio

Kazuhiko Kuroki

Masakazu Sakata

Yoshikazu Tsujino

Satoshi Narukawa

Yukinori Kuwano

Tsutomu Sonozaki

Kazuo Teraji

Masataka Takeuchi

Takashi Ohkubo

Kousuke Takeuchi

Shuichi Naijo

Ikuro Nakane

Yasunobu Kodama

Kosuke Takeuchi

Ikurou Nakane

Yuuji Hamada

Shiori Maeda

Sealed non-aqueous electrolyte cell having a casing of a sheet of laminated material

A thin type battery having a electricity generating element disposed in a sealed chamber formed by a laminated sheathing. The laminated sheathing forms the sealed chamber by overlapping and airtightly adhering opposing surfaces of the laminated films at a primary sealing area and at a secondary sealing area which is perpendicular to the direction of the primary sealing area. Collector terminals are connected to a positive electrode and to a negative electrode of the electricity generating element. The collector terminal are airtightly crimped in the secondary sealing area of the laminated sheathing. Also, the collector terminals extend outwardly of the laminated sheathing. The primary sealing part of the laminated sheathing is located over a surface of the electricity generating element.

Thin type battery with laminated sheathing

In an organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention, at least a luminescent layer using an organic material is provided between a hole injection electrode and an electron injection electrode, and a luminescent material composed of a condensed polycyclic aromatic compound having condensed rings each having a benzene ring as a basic unit the number of which is in the range of 2 to 10, along with an organic material having hole transporting characteristics, is contained as the organic material in the luminescent layer.

Organic electroluminescent device

In an organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention, at least a carrier transporting layer and a luminescent layer which use an organic material are provided between a hole injection electrode and an electron injection electrode, and at least one of a compound having a pyrimidine ring as its center skeleton and a compound having a triazine ring as its center skeleton is used for a hole transporting material in a hole transporting layer in the carrier transporting layer and the organic material in the luminescent layer.

Organic electrolluminescent device

In an organic electroluminescent device according to the present invention, at least a carrier transporting layer and a luminescent layer which use an organic material are provided between a hole injection electrode and an electron injection electrode, wherein a luminescent portion having a luminescent peak wavelength different from a luminescent peak wavelength in the luminescent layer is partially provided in such a manner that it is laminated on the luminescent layer, or at least a hole transporting layer having luminous characteristics and an electron transporting layer having luminous characteristics which respectively contain organic materials emitting fluorescence in different colors in a visible region are provided between the hole injection electrode and the electron injection electrode, wherein a hole transporting portion having non-luminous characteristics is partially provided between the hole transporting layer having luminous characteristics and the electron transporting layer having luminous characteristics when the hole transporting layer having luminous characteristics emits light, while an electron transporting portion having non-luminous characteristics is partially provided between the electron transporting layer having luminous characteristics and the hole transporting layer having luminous characteristics when the electron transporting layer having luminous characteristics emits light.

Organic electroluminescent elements capable of operating at a low driving voltage, leading to saving of electric power and operating cost for a driving circuit. In an organic electroluminescent element in which a hole transport layer and a luminous layer are formed between a hole injecting electrode layer and an electron injecting electrode layer which are oppositely arranged in a pair and in which the hole transport layer is overlaid on the hole injecting electrode layer, the hole transport layer is doped with a hole injection material at least at a region near the interface between the hole transport layer and a hole injecting electrode. The hole injection material has an ionization potential which is lower than that of the material of the hole transport layer and higher than that of the material of the hole injecting electrode layer.

Organic electroluminescent elements

An organic EL element that exhibits excellent durability by reducing the amount of accumulated carriers and curbing degradation by heat generated while the organic EL element is driven. The organic EL element comprises a pair of a hole injecting electrode and an electron injecting electrode sandwiching an organic luminous layer and an organic carrier transport layer placed one on top of the other to have a boundary therebetween, characterized in that either the organic luminous layer or the organic carrier transport layer, whichever is placed closer to the hole injecting electrode, is doped with a first organic material, the first organic material being made of at least one substance, a minimum level of a conducting band of the first organic material being lower than a minimum level of a conducting band of a material forming the layer to be doped with the first organic material, and the other layer which is placed closer to the electron injecting electrode is doped with a second organic material, the second organic material being made of at least one substance, a maximum level of a valence band of the second organic material being higher than a maximum level of a valence band of the other layer to be doped with the second organic material.

The present invention provides an organic EL element improved in durability. The organic EL element comprises a hole-injecting electrode and an electron-injecting electrode, and at least a film made of a luminous material therebetween, wherein the luminous material is one of a metal complex polymer, an inner complex salt having two or more ligands, and 10-hydroxybenzo [h] quinoline-metal complex.

Organic electroluminescent element

An electroluminescent device having a hole injection electrode, an electron injection electrode, and at least an organic emitting layer therebetween, said organic emitting layer includes an 8-quinolinol derivative-metal complex whose ligand is selected from the group consisting of chemical formulas 102 through 106:

Organic electroluminescent device having improved durability

An electroluminescent (EL) device is disclosed which has a pair of electrodes, an organic film therebetween including at least organic emitting material, and a vacuum evaporated metal film extending from the electrodes on to the outer surface of the organic film. The metal film protects at least an area on the outer surface of the organic film against air. The area is part of the border between the exposed area of the organic film and one of the electrodes, the part of the border corresponding to the crossing region of the electrodes and its vicinity.

Organic electroluminescent device having improved durability and

There is disclosed an EL element having at least one layer made from an organic material between an electron injection electrode and a hole injection electrode. The organic material consists of an oxadiazole series compound which has a plurality of oxadiazole rings, each of the oxadiazole rings being substituted by a condensed polycyclic aromatic group.

Organic electroluminescent element having improved durability

There is disclosed an electroluminescent (EL) element having an electron injection electrode, a hole injection electrode, and at least one layer therebetween, the layer comprising either a Rhodamine metal complex, a chromone metal complex, an azomethine metal complex, or another metal complex whose ligand is either thiobromine, flaviosin, or acriflavine.

Organic electroluminescent element and a method for producing the same

An optical wavelength converting device includes a substrate, and a waveguide layer of a nonlinear organic material formed on one major surface of the substrate and having a thickness tapered along one axis parallel to the major surface, in which a waveguide with a desired thickness can be selected in a direction normal to the axis.

Optical wavelength converting device and manufacturing method thereof

A focus adjusting apparatus comprises a focus lens device provided in an optical system. The focus lens device comprises a transparent container of a rectangular prism form, a lens member supported in the container and formed of poly(acrylic amide) gel as a polymer gel substance having electro-reactive deformability, and a pair of transparent electrodes, the container being filled with water-aceton mixture solution. The lens member is formed by two lens materials having different proportions of acrylic acid group. A voltage is applied to the transparent electrodes under control of an automatic focusing circuit to cause electric field in the container, whereby the lens member is deformed in a concentric spherical form to form a lens. When the application of the voltage is stopped, the lens member returns to the initial form. A focal distance of the lens member is changed according to degrees of such deformation of the lens member.

Focus adjusting apparatus provided with a focus lens member formed of

An ultrafine tube is produced by a method comprising the steps of applying a highly polymerized material on a substrate to form a resist layer on a surface of said substrate, applying a laser beam to the resist layer under such a condition that said resist layer is melted to form an ultrafine tube between the substrate and resist layer in the predetermined pattern.

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Osaka, Japan

Takanori Fujii