Abstract:
Provided is an organic electroluminescent module with: an organic electroluminescent device in which an organic luminescent functional layer is provided between a pair of electrodes; a luminescent-device driving circuit unit that is connected to the pair of the electrodes and controls the luminescence of the organic electroluminescent device; and a touch-position detection circuit unit that is connected to both ends of a detection electrode in a touch-position detection direction, which is either of the pair of electrodes, wherein the touch-position detection circuit unit performs the touch-position detection by detecting electrical characteristics at both ends of the detection electrode.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL device that includes an electrode having a light-emitting function and a touch sensing function, an organic electroluminescent module that includes a specific controlling circuit and can contribute to reduction in sizes and thickness and simplified production steps of the device, and a smart device and an illumination device each including the organic electroluminescent module. The organic electroluminescent module of the present invention has a touch sensing function and includes a capacitive touch sensing circuit unit and a light-emitting device driving circuit unit including a light-emitting device driving circuit section for driving an organic electroluminescent panel. The organic electroluminescent panel includes paired opposite plate electrodes therein. The paired electrodes are connected to the light-emitting device driving circuit unit, and one of the paired electrodes is a touch sensing electrode that is connected to the touch sensing circuit unit.
Abstract:
An illumination device is provided with: a planar first electrode; a planar second electrode arranged to face the first electrode; a light emitting layer which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and emits light in accordance with a current flowing between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first sensor that is electrically connected to the first electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the first electrode; and a second sensor that is electrically connected to the second electrode and detects an electrostatic capacitance of the second electrode.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescence panel including a light-transmissive organic electroluminescence element, having a wide light-emitting area constituted by a plurality of divided light-emitting areas, and having improved luminance uniformity and stability. An organic electroluminescence panel of the present invention includes an organic electroluminescence element having a light transmittance of 50% or more at a wavelength of 550 nm during non-emission of light, and is characterized in that, in the organic electroluminescence element, a light-emitting area constituted by at least a positive electrode, an organic functional layer unit, and a negative electrode is divided into a plurality of parts on a substrate, both the positive electrode and the negative electrode constituting the light-emitting area are constituted by light-transmissive electrodes, and a positive electrode constituting one of the divided light-emitting areas is electrically connected in series to a negative electrode constituting another adjacent light-emitting area.
Abstract:
An organic electroluminescence module contains: an organic electroluminescent element having an organic light-emitting functional layer provided between a pair of electrodes; a light-emitting element drive circuit unit connected to the pair of electrodes and controlling the light emission of the organic electroluminescent element; and a touch position detection circuit unit using one electrode out of the pair of electrodes as a detection electrode and being connected to the detection electrode. The detection electrode is arranged, split, in the touch position detection direction. The touch position detection circuit unit performs touch position detection for at least one location in the touch position detection direction, by individually detecting the electrical characteristics of each detection electrode.
Abstract:
Provided is a display device that can reduce electric power consumption. The display device is provided with a backlight (100) and with a field-sequential display panel (200). The backlight has light-emitting units that comprise an organic electroluminescence element in which are layered a plurality of light-emitting units that emit light of different colors. The light-emitting units that can emit white light or yellow light are provided furthest to a light-emission-surface side.
Abstract:
A display device that is provided with a light-transmitting shutter element panel wherein shutter elements that control light transmission are arranged in a matrix and with a backlight panel that has organic electroluminescence elements and that is arranged so as to overlap the shutter element panel. The organic electroluminescence elements used in the display device are layered elements wherein light-emitting units of different colors are sandwiched between a plurality of electrodes and single-layer elements wherein a white light-emitting unit or a light-emitting unit of the complementary color of any of the different colors is sandwiched between a pair of electrodes. The layered elements and the single-layer elements are arranged so as to overlap the shutter elements in stripes that run parallel to the direction in which the shutter elements are arrayed.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL panel having a display pattern that allows low power consumption, high emission uniformity, and high emission luminance ratio and makes it possible to reduce the manufacturing process time and provide high productivity, a method for manufacturing the organic EL panel, an organic EL module, and an information device. The organic EL panel of the present invention includes an organic EL device including an organic EL element having a pattern A including at least a light-emitting part and a non-light-emitting part; and at least one auxiliary member, wherein the organic EL element has an emission luminance ratio of the light-emitting part to the non-light-emitting part of 5:1 to 50:1, and the at least one auxiliary member has a pattern B being geometrically similar to the pattern A and including a light-transmitting part and a light-blocking part.