Patents Examined by Ashok Patel
  • Patent number: 11966263
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a structural framework, a cover forward of an electronic display layer, and an illumination device rearward of the electronic display layer. A rear passageway is provided between a rear portion of the structural framework and a rear surface of the illumination device and is in fluid communication with a front passageway between a rear surface of the cover and a forward surface of the electronic display layer and an illumination device passageway between a rear surface of the electronic display layer and a front surface of the illumination device. A closed loop fan unit adjacent to an entrance to the front passageway and the illumination device passageway creates flows of circulating gas therethrough when activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Mike Brown, Alex Moreau
  • Patent number: 11961692
    Abstract: An anode structure for a magnetron provides for low eddy currents and efficient water cooling. The anode structure may be made by machining a bimetal blank including an out layer of a first metal and an inner layer of a second metal and formed by explosion bonding. The second metal has a resistivity lower than first metal and a thermal conductivity higher than the first metal. The machining may result in the anode structure with vanes each having a center (tip) portion made of the second metal and the rest made of the first metal. The machined anode structure may be coated with the second metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Muons, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Neubauer, Alan J. Dudas, Stephen A. Kahn
  • Patent number: 11945365
    Abstract: A lighting assembly includes one or more spheroid lenses and a lighting insert configured to hold the spheroid lens or lenses and to cover a hole in a vehicle body panel. The lighting insert is further configured to form a water-tight seal with each of the vehicle body panel and the spheroid lens or lenses. The lighting insert defines a lens aperture configured to hold a corresponding spheroid lens. The lens aperture is substantially smaller than the hole in the vehicle body panel, and the lighting insert is further configured to form a water-tight seal with each of the vehicle body panel and the spheroid lens. The lighting insert may define a circle shape that is configured to cover a circle-shaped hole in the vehicle body panel. The lighting insert may define an oval shape that is configured to cover an oval-shaped hole in the vehicle body panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lund, Inc.
    Inventors: Josh Foster, Terrel Lindsay
  • Patent number: 11940700
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; wherein: the display area includes gate lines and data lines, and a plurality of pixel units defined by the intersections of gate lines and data lines, each of the pixel units including a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode electrically connected to a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; the non-display area includes a plurality of dummy pixel units arranged around the display area, each of the dummy pixel units including a dummy thin film transistor and a dummy pixel electrode floating relative to a drain electrode of the dummy thin film transistor; the non-display area further includes a dummy common electrode structure electrically connected to at least some of the dummy pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chunping Long, Hui Li
  • Patent number: 11937468
    Abstract: There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Eisuke Negishi, Shinichi Teraguchi, Shuji Kudo
  • Patent number: 11920758
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for melting cold weather related obstructions (snow, ice, frost, etc.) off of vehicle lamps by heating the lens of the housing, thus restoring the normal operating abilities (e.g., brake light illumination, running light illumination, turn signal illumination). This can allow for an efficient signaling process (e.g., to the following vehicle), thus raising the general level of safety on the roads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PANOR CORP.
    Inventors: Mike Monpremier, Raymond Sassoon
  • Patent number: 11894500
    Abstract: A lighting device disclosed in an embodiment of the invention includes a substrate; a plurality of light sources spaced apart from each other at predetermined intervals on the substrate; a resin layer disposed on the substrate; a phosphor layer disposed on the resin layer and having a pattern layer including a concave portion and a convex portion formed on a surface facing the resin layer; and a diffusion layer disposed between the resin layer and the phosphor layer, wherein a thickness of the diffusion layer may be 10% or more and less than 50% of the maximum thickness of the phosphor layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon Park, Sarum Han
  • Patent number: 11886068
    Abstract: A viewing angle diffusion film and a display panel are disclosed. The viewing angle diffusion film includes a substrate and a refractive protrusion disposed on a surface of the substrate. The refractive protrusion includes a first side surface away from a center of the substrate, and the first side surface includes a first curved surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Hu Dou, Ziping Wu, Gang Yu
  • Patent number: 11885485
    Abstract: A light transmissive structure includes a light transmissive substrate having first and second opposing faces, and an array of microprism elements on the first face. Each microprism element includes a first inclined surface disposed at a first inclined angle relative to the second face, and a second inclined surface disposed at a second inclined angle relative to the second face. The first inclined angle is less than the second inclined angle, and a peak angle between the first inclined surface and second inclined surface is in the range of about 70 degrees to about 100 degrees. The second inclined surface has a convex curvature when viewed from angles perpendicular thereto. The light transmissive structure is configured to receive light from a light source facing the first face in a first direction and redistribute light emerging from the second face in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BRIGHTVIEW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ken G. Purchase, Bing Shen
  • Patent number: 11886083
    Abstract: A monochrome display is converted into a color display by including an electrically controllable planar color filter plate switchable between primary colors and operating the display in a color field sequential mode. Hence the requirement for a color switchable illumination source is eliminated. For example the illumination source may be a white OLED, an illumination type which, in combination with a microlens array, has proven well suited for directional displays. Further the need for a color mask is eliminated, thereby eliminating problems of moiree interference with a microlens array and further eliminating problems of diffraction patterns in infrared images captured through the display for example for observer tracking purposes. The electrically controllable planar color filter plate may comprise two wavelength dependent wave retarders and two liquid crystal cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventor: Steen Svendstorp Krener-Iversen
  • Patent number: 11880107
    Abstract: The present application provides a pixel electrode, a driving method of the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal display panel, the pixel electrode comprises a frame electrode and a keel electrode, the frame electrode forms a closed region, the keel electrode is located in the closed region, the keel electrode comprises at least a first trunk and a second trunk vertically intersecting the first trunk, the first trunk and the second trunk divide the closed region into four sub areas, and a shape of an area composed of any two adjacent sub areas is pagoda shaped, to improve a light transmittance of the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Liu
  • Patent number: 11871597
    Abstract: An organic electroluminescence display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode including a first sub-electrode and a second sub-electrode spaced apart from each other and on the substrate; a first light emitting unit on the first electrode; a charge generation unit on the first light emitting unit; a second light emitting unit on the charge generation unit; and a second electrode on the second light emitting unit, wherein the first light emitting unit comprises a first light emitting layer correspondingly on the first sub-electrode; and a second light emitting layer correspondingly on the second sub-electrode, wherein the second light emitting unit comprises a third light emitting layer correspondingly on the first light emitting layer; and a fourth light emitting layer correspondingly on the second light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungjin Yang, Myunghwan Kim, Seohyun Kim, Ji-young Kim, Jinwoo Park, Wonjun Song, Taewoong Yoo, Soojung Youn, Kwanhee Lee, Seokjae Lee
  • Patent number: 11858429
    Abstract: A structural unit for provision in the front end or in the tail end of a motor vehicle, wherein the structural unit comprises a support body and at least two environment sensing systems, wherein the environment sensing systems are received on the support body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mathias Drueppel, Susanne Koehler, Werner Koesters, Christian Smarslik
  • Patent number: 11846864
    Abstract: The present application relates to a filter module, a color filter, an image sensor and an imaging device. The filter module includes: a plurality of color filters and a control component. Each of the color filters includes: a first substrate; a metasurface structure located on the first substrate and including a plurality of microstructures periodically arranged; a dielectric layer located on a side of the metasurface structure away from the first substrate and covering the metasurface structure, wherein a refractive index of the dielectric layer is different from a refractive index of the metasurface structure; a second substrate located on a side of the dielectric layer away from the first substrate. The control component is configured to adjust the refractive index of the dielectric layer so as to adjust wavelengths of visible light passing through the color filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Nanfang Jia, Yidan Peng, Long Wang
  • Patent number: 11846784
    Abstract: An optical fiber laser coupler, comprising a laser input optical cable, a laser shaping and coupling device, and a multi-beam-mode energy transmission fiber (205). The multi-beam-mode energy transmission fiber (205) comprises a circular fiber core (105) and annular fiber cores (106, 107), and each annular fiber core (106, 107) is coaxial with the circular fiber core (105). A fluorine-doped layer (109) is disposed between the circular fiber core (105) and the annular fiber core (106, 107), and the fluorine-doped layer (109) is also disposed between adjacent annular fiber cores (106, 107). An adjustable collimating lens group (203) and an adjustable focusing lens group (204) of the laser shaping and coupling device can horizontally move along a direction of a laser beam in a housing of the laser shaping and coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan Raycus Fiber Laser Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiang Shen, Dapeng Yan, Rong Li, Qixin Zhu, Zhongya Huang, Jianhong Shi, Lilei Tang, Wenli Zhao, Xing Lei, Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 11841589
    Abstract: Disclosed are an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area, the non-display area is provided around an outside of the display area, the non-display area is provided with a frame adhesive coating area, the frame adhesive coating area has a frame adhesive coating section, the array substrate further includes a metal pad provided within the frame adhesive coating section and electrically connected to a conductive metal ball, and the metal pad has a shape adapted to a shape of the frame adhesive coating section and extends in an extension direction of the frame adhesive coating section. The array substrate of the technical solution in the present application can ensure good conductivity and reduce the risk of circuit failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Yongkao Gong, Haoxuan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11841564
    Abstract: A display device includes a liquid crystal display including a first liquid crystal display panel that displays a character or an image; a decorative member; and a controller that controls the display of the liquid crystal display. The decorative member is disposed on a display surface side of the liquid crystal display, and includes a display region in which the display of the liquid crystal display is transparently displayed, and a non-display region adjacent to the display region. The controller controls a luminance through the decorative member of a black display of the liquid crystal display to a luminance invisible to a user, and controls the luminance through the decorative member of a low-gradation region, except for the black display, of the liquid crystal display to a luminance visible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Shanghai Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Yoshida, Akira Banjouya
  • Patent number: 11835804
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a peep-proof film, the peep-proof film includes a light-transmitting film body, an electrophoretic liquid, a first electrode pattern and a second electrode pattern, the film body includes a light incident surface and a light exit surface which are opposite to each other, the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern are spaced in a thickness direction of the peep-proof film, the film body has a plurality of receiving cavities thereinside, the electrophoretic liquid is in the receiving cavities, the electrophoretic liquid is located between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern and includes a dispersion medium and electrophoretic particles, and a refractive index of the dispersion medium is less than that of the film body. The present disclosure further provides a backlight source and a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hai Tang, Liang Gao, Xiaolin Geng, Bing Zhang
  • Patent number: 11827153
    Abstract: A vehicular cabin monitoring system includes a mirror head adjustably attached at a mounting structure configured to attach at an interior portion of a vehicle. The minor head accommodates a camera and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) connected in series with each other. A switch is operable in an open state, where current provided by a current driver passes through each individual LED of the plurality of LEDs, and a closed state, where current provided by the current driver passes through a first subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs and bypasses a second subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs. The switch operates in the open state when the camera captures image data for a first vehicular function, such as occupant monitoring, and operates in the closed state when the camera captures image data for a second vehicular function, such as driver monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Miller, Yuesheng Lu
  • Patent number: 11822396
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first insulating substrate including a first substrate end, a second insulating substrate including an outer surface and a second substrate end, an electrode located between the first substrate end and the second substrate end, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on a side on which the outer surface is located. The outer surface includes a flat portion and a sloping portion. A thickness on a side on which the second substrate end is located is less than a thickness on a side on which the flat portion is located. The transparent conductive layer overlaps the sloping portion and is electrically connected to the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Watanabe, Yoshikatsu Imazeki, Yoichi Kamijo, Koichi Miyasaka, Shuichi Osawa