Patents Examined by Anthony J Frost
  • Patent number: 11338562
    Abstract: It is a main object of the present invention to impart higher antifogging properties to the hydrophilic material formed of a crosslinked resin, having a surface enriched with hydrophilic groups, previously proposed by the inventors. The laminate of the present invention includes a water absorbing layer (B) and a hydrophilic layer (A) provided in this order on a substrate, wherein the hydrophilic layer (A) is formed of a crosslinked resin having an anionic, cationic or nonionic hydrophilic group, and has a gradient of hydrophilic groups (intensity of hydrophilic group on surface of the hydrophilic layer (A)/intensity of hydrophilic group at ½ of thickness of the hydrophilic layer (A)) of not less than 1.1; and the water absorbing layer (B) is formed of a crosslinked resin having a water absorption rate per unit mass (g) of in the range of 5 to 500 wt %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUI CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Takayuki Hanawa, Koju Okazaki
  • Patent number: 11334116
    Abstract: A screen protector comprises a glass-based substrate and an adhesive. The glass-based substrate comprises a first major surface, a second major surface, a thickness, and an edge. The first major surface comprises a first planar portion and a peripheral portion extending outwardly from the first planar portion. The second major surface comprises a second planar portion opposite the first planar portion and is parallel to the first planar portion. The edge comprises an outer peripheral surface that intersects the peripheral portion of the first major surface. The adhesive comprises a first major surface, a second major surface, a thickness, and an edge. The first major surface of the adhesive is adhered to the second major surface of the glass-based substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sean Michael Buono, Jacob Immerman, Chih Yuan Lu, James Edward Morrison, Jr., Santona Pal, Ananthanarayanan Subramanian, Chu Yu Yeh
  • Patent number: 11319393
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a photo-alignable polymer which has excellent coating properties, is capable of suppressing film thickness unevenness, and has excellent upper layer coating properties and good liquid crystal alignment properties after being formed as a layer; a binder composition; a binder layer; an optical laminate; a method for producing an optical laminate; and an image display device. The photo-alignable polymer of an embodiment of the present invention is a photo-alignable polymer having a repeating unit A including a cleavage group capable of decomposing by an action of at least one selected from the group consisting of light, heat, an acid, and a base to generate a polar group, in which the repeating unit A has the cleavage group in a side chain, has a fluorine atom or a silicon atom on a side closer to a terminal than the cleavage group in the side chain, and the photo-alignable polymer satisfies Condition 1 or Condition 2 shown below.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Akio Tamura, Reiko Inushima, Takashi Iizumi, Yutaka Nozoe, Hideyuki Nishikawa, Kazushige Nakagawa, Kunihiro Atsumi
  • Patent number: 11319488
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device includes an element substrate, a counter substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the element substrate and the counter substrate, reflective electrodes placed on a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side, and a pair of alignment films each of which is placed on a corresponding one of a surface of the element substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side and a surface of the counter substrate that is located on the liquid crystal layer side. A liquid crystal composition contained in the liquid crystal layer contains a compound containing an alkoxy group. The alignment films contain a polymer including polyimide. The polyimide is derived from a polyamic acid and contains a side chain represented by Formula (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanobu Mizusaki, Tomonori Itoh, Takashi Satoh
  • Patent number: 11307462
    Abstract: Provided is a liquid crystal aligning agent composition comprising a hindered amine-based light stabilizer and a polyamic acid polymer derived from a diamine, a method for preparing a liquid crystal alignment film using the same, and a liquid crystal alignment film and a liquid crystal display using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sungjoon Min, Jung Ho Jo, Soonho Kwon, Hangah Park, Hyeongseuk Yun
  • Patent number: 11309338
    Abstract: Provided is a display device and an electronic apparatus that prevent the occurrence of failure in the connection between a mounting substrate and an electronic component. The display device includes an interconnection layer provided on a support substrate, a plurality of insulating layers provided above the interconnection layer, an opening provided in parts of the insulating layers, and a metal layer electrically connected to the interconnection layer and filling the opening up to a height below a layer surface of the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshihiko Watanabe, Akiyoshi Aoyagi, Hirokazu Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11286350
    Abstract: A composition includes a copolymer including a specific structural unit and a solvent, wherein the copolymer further includes a specific functional group at at least one terminal end. A film may include a cured product of the composition. A stacked structure may include a substrate film and the film on at least one surface of the substrate film. A display device may include the stacked structure. An electronic device may include the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Im Han, Byung Ha Park, Dmitry Androsov, Hye Young Kong, Ginam Kim, Won Cheol Jung
  • Patent number: 11281256
    Abstract: An electronic device has a structure in which two portions between which a bent portion of a display panel is positioned are each fixed to a housing. The electronic device takes two forms of a form in which the display panel is opened and a form in which the display panel is folded in three. The electronic device includes a mechanism for sliding two housings parallel to each other. The display panel is changed in shape so that a portion where a display surface of the display panel is convexly curved and a portion where the display surface of the display panel is concavely curved in the folded state move in directions parallel and opposite to each other. At this time, the two portions of the display panel which are supported by the housings are slid while their display surfaces maintain a state parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kensuke Yoshizumi
  • Patent number: 11276844
    Abstract: The present application relates to an optical filter and an organic light-emitting display device. The optical filter of the present application has excellent omnidirectional antireflection performance and color characteristics on the side as well as the front, and the optical filter can be applied to an organic light-emitting device to improve visibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Sun Kug Kim, Sergey Belyaev, Hyuk Yoon, Moon Soo Park, Jong Hyun Jung
  • Patent number: 11255613
    Abstract: The present technology provides a non-cylindrical structure for transporting media, including gases, liquids, solids, or energy comprising a layer of thermal pyrolytic graphite (TPG) surrounded by an outer layer and an inner layer comprising a metal, a ceramic, a glass, or a plastic. In particular, the present technology relates to a non-cylindrical tube or a pipe having an inner layer, an outer layer, and a layer of TPG between the inner layer and the outer layer wherein the TPG layer is configured to manage the direction of heat conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Quartz, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Fan, Creighton Tomek, Gregory Shaffer
  • Patent number: 11251393
    Abstract: A flexible display module according to the present application includes a number of module material layers superposed; and at least one strain isolation layer disposed between the two adjacent the module material layers. The strain isolation layer includes a chamber and an elastic material layer surrounding an outer periphery of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Hu, Hao Feng, Pengle Dang, Bo Yuan, Li Lin
  • Patent number: 11226521
    Abstract: A liquid crystal dimming film includes two substrates, two conductive layers, two free radical resisting layers and a liquid crystal layer. After the two conductive layers are electrically conducted, the electric field generated by the conductive layer can change the liquid crystal light transmission state of the liquid crystal layer. In addition, the free radical resisting layers are coated and photo-cured on both surfaces of the liquid crystal layer respectively. When the two liquid crystal layers are situated in a lighting environment, the free radical resisting layer can capture the free radicals produced by the liquid crystal layer to prevent the free radicals from affecting the conductive layer, thereby maintaining good photoelectric properties of the conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ELITE OPTOELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chia-Chien Chin
  • Patent number: 11208344
    Abstract: A textured glass article that includes: a glass substrate comprising a thickness, a primary surface and a bulk composition at the midpoint of the thickness; and a textured region defined by the primary surface and comprising a textured region composition. The textured region comprises a sparkle of 2% or less. Further, the bulk composition comprises about 40 mol % to 80 mol % silica and the textured region composition comprises at least about 40 mol % silica.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Robert Randall Hancock, Jr., Kelleen Kaye Hughes, Yuhui Jin, Aize Li
  • Patent number: 11204524
    Abstract: The present invention aims to provide an image display device including an optical film having a thickness suitable for practical use without including any special inorganic material, wherein the image display device has high color rendering properties and is capable of minimizing the occurrence of blackout and interference colors (rainbow unevenness) even when the image display device includes light sources that emit light having a narrow emission spectrum. The present invention provides an image display device including an optical film having an in-plane birefringence and a polarizer in this order, wherein the optical film and the polarizer are disposed to form an angle of about 45° between a slow axis of the optical film and an absorption axis of the polarizer, the optical film has a retardation of 3000 nm or more, and light incident on the optical film provides at least 50% coverage of ITU-R BT.2020.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignees: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Koike, Takashi Kuroda, Kana Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11205686
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display substrate, a preparation method of the display substrate and a display device. A contact angle of a material, for defining long sides of pixel regions, of a pixel defining layer is larger than a contact angle of a material, for defining short sides of the pixel regions, of the pixel defining layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yingying Song
  • Patent number: 11174426
    Abstract: The invention described in the present specification relates to a color conversion film including: a color conversion layer which includes a resin matrix, and an organic fluorescent substance that is dispersed in the resin matrix, and emits light with a wavelength different from that of irradiated light when irradiated with light comprising a wavelength of 450 nm, in which the color conversion film includes a color shift compensation polymer, which allows a color difference change of white light emitted to be within 0.05 when an entire surface of the color conversion film is irradiated with blue light having a luminance of 600 nit at 60° C. for 1,000 hours, in the color conversion layer or in an additional layer disposed on the color conversion layer, a backlight unit including the same, and a display device including the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Mok Shin, Nari Kim, Byeong In Ahn, Hyun Seong Ko, Seijung Park, Hye Mi Oh
  • Patent number: 11155754
    Abstract: Provided is (i) a composition containing at least one kind of polymerizable liquid crystal compound and at least one kind of photopolymerization initiator, the at least one kind of photopolymerization initiator having (i) a maximum absorption at wavelength ?(A) and (ii) a maximum absorption at wavelength ?(B), the at least one kind of polymerizable liquid crystal compound and the at least one kind of photopolymerization initiator satisfying the following: 20 nm<?(B)??max(LC); or 20 nm<?max(LC)??(A), wherein ?max(LC) represents a wavelength at which the at least one kind of polymerizable liquid crystal compound has a maximum absorption, the composition being a composition from which an optically anisotropic layer that hardly has a transfer defect during a transfer is capable of being produced, and (ii) a display device and the like each including the optically anisotropic layer produced from the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Kasai, Nobuyuki Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 11143888
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a substrate for a display apparatus includes: a first substrate; a translucent coloring layer that includes a plurality of color regions and that overlaps with the first substrate; a first translucent resin layer that overlaps with the first substrate at boundaries of the color regions; and a light shielding layer that overlaps with the first translucent resin layer on an opposite side to the first substrate side. A width of the light shielding layer in a direction parallel with the first substrate is equal to or smaller than a width of the first translucent resin layer in the parallel direction on a cross section vertical to the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Koichiro Adachi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Seiji Uejima
  • Patent number: 11137523
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a protective film for a polarizer, a polarizing plate, and a display device comprising the same. The protective film for a polarizer according to the embodiments is improved in mechanical strength and minimized in rainbow strains by minimizing the difference in the orientation angle between the center and the edge of the film while generating a difference in the strengths in the longitudinal/transverse directions of the film. Hence, it can be advantageously used as a protective film for a polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SKC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dawoo Jeong, Jang Won Lee, Young Min Heo, Ho Chun Kang, Sechul Lee
  • Patent number: 11130363
    Abstract: An in-mold label includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface. When the in-mold label is molded on to, or into, a plastic product, the first surface faces outward with respect to the plastic product and the second surfaces faces inward with respect to the plastic product. The substrate includes a full graphics area on the second surface. Ink is applied in the full graphics area to provide a full graphics image. To facilitate the molding process, each of the substrate and the ink having a complementary property to a property of the plastic product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: ImageWorks Interactive
    Inventor: Thomas W. Becker