Patents Examined by Edward Glick
  • Patent number: 10288962
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate and a pixel electrode on the first substrate. A thickness of the pixel electrode is about 40 nanometers (nm) or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yeo Geon Yoon, Jun Ho Song, Byeong Jae Ahn, Sung Ho Kang
  • Patent number: 10274790
    Abstract: The present application discloses an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises: a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of pixel units defined by the plurality of data lines and the plurality of gate lines, each pixel unit comprising a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and at least three thin film transistors, the pixel unit further comprising: a charge-discharge element, the charge-discharge element and a third thin film transistor in the at least three thin film transistors charging and discharging the pixel unit such that the pixel unit forms a first voltage region and a second voltage region with different voltages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wenbo Li, Xinyin Wu, Pan Li, Hongfei Cheng, Jianbo Xian
  • Patent number: 10254566
    Abstract: Apparatus and systems for an ophthalmic device having alignment features for a liquid filled layered stack to assemble are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include first, second, and third optical elements arranged in a stack, with each optical element including alignment and separation features. The alignment and separation features may form a reservoir region and a dam region. The reservoir region may provide radial alignment to the first, second, and third optical elements such that an optical axis of each optical element is aligned, and the reservoir region may have a reservoir region gap formed between adjacent ones of the optical elements. The dam region, disposed radially outside of the reservoir region, may include a first dam formed due to the first and second optical elements being in contact, and a second dam formed due to the second and third optical elements being in contact, wherein the dam region determines a reservoir region gap width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Jeremy L. Emken, Scott B. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 10254611
    Abstract: The present invention is intended to control the color temperature of white exhibited by a liquid crystal display device. White is produced when light waves emitted through pixels associated with three colors of red, green, and blue have maximum intensities. The amounts of light emitted through the respective pixels are controlled by differentiating the shapes of the pixel electrodes disposed at the respective pixels from one another. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. Otherwise, the shapes of interceptive films disposed at the respective pixels are differentiated from one another in order to control light waves emitted through the respective pixels. Thus, the color temperature of white is controlled. The interceptive film may be shaped like the pixel electrode. Otherwise, the interceptive film may be realized with an interceptive pattern other than that of the pixel electrode or one of openings bored in a black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuko Mori, Munenori Motooka, Ryutaro Oke, Kazunori Ojima, Kikuo Ono
  • Patent number: 10234731
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, a lower electrode, an emission layer, and an upper electrode. A transistor part is located on the substrate. The lower electrode is positioned on an insulating layer formed on the uppermost layer of the transistor part and includes a neck having a narrower width than other regions. The emission layer is positioned on the lower electrode. The upper electrode is positioned on the emission layer. The insulating layer is positioned in the neck and has a recessed pattern depressed downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hana Jung
  • Patent number: 10222541
    Abstract: Disclosed is an LCD apparatus having a reduced size and weight. The LCD apparatus includes a bottom chassis having a bottom surface and first to fourth sidewalls. The sidewall of the bottom chassis includes a supporting member for preventing a light guiding plate from being moved and a fixing boss for fixing an optical sheet. The bottom chassis includes a lamp insertion portion for receiving a lamp unit, which is disposed on the third and fourth sidewalls of the bottom chassis. The bottom chassis receives a reflecting plate, the light guiding plate and the optical sheet. A mold frame is coupled to the bottom chassis to fix the reflecting plate, the light guiding plate and the optical sheet to the bottom chassis. A display unit disposed on the mold frame is fixed to the mold frame by a top chassis coupled to the mold frame. Accordingly, a bottom mold frame for receiving a backlight assembly is removed, so that it is able to reduce a cost of the LCD apparatus and a weight thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young-il Kim
  • Patent number: 10216046
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided. A liquid crystal display device comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a lower layer disposed on the first substrate and including at least one contact hole; and a spacer portion disposed on the lower layer, wherein the spacer portion includes a main spacer not overlapping the contact hole and an auxiliary spacer overlapping at least a portion of the contact hole, and a distance between the main spacer and the second substrate is smaller than a distance between the auxiliary spacer and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nu Ree Um, Min Jung Kang, Hee Ra Kim, Sang Hun Lee
  • Patent number: 10216060
    Abstract: A liquid crystal lens, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first electrode is disposed on the first substrate. A retardation layer is disposed on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate. The retardation layer includes a plurality of steps having different heights. A second electrode is disposed on the second substrate. The second electrode includes a plurality of sub-electrodes, the plurality of sub-electrodes being one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of steps. The width of the sub-electrode is smaller than the width of the step corresponding to the sub-electrode. A gap is provided between two adjacent sub-electrodes. One edge of the gap is aligned with a step point of two adjacent steps. A liquid crystal is filled in a space between the retardation layer and the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhongxiao Li
  • Patent number: 10209574
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display substrate including a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area enclosing the display area; a plurality of normal pixels formed in an edge region among a center region of the display area and a peripheral area of the display area, and a plurality of corner pixels formed in a corner region of the peripheral area of the display area; and a sealant formed in the non-display area. A corner pixel of the plurality of corner pixels and the sealant are separated from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Myoung Lee, Seung Jun Yu, O Sung Seo, Joong Gun Chong
  • Patent number: 10210814
    Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a frame positioned in the rear of the display panel, a backlight unit positioned between the display panel and the frame and providing light for the display panel, and a heat dissipation protrusion formed on the frame and contacted with the backlight unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sangmin Baek, Hyongil Kil, Jaehyung Jeon, Juyoung Joung
  • Patent number: 10203449
    Abstract: A light assembly, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display are described. The light assembly includes a carrier, a light guide plate, a light source, a constraining member and a securing unit. The light guide plate is disposed on the carrier and has an incident surface. The light source which emits light towards the light guide plate and is adjacent to the incident surface of the light guide plate. The constraining member is disposed above the carrier and has a constraining surface. The securing unit is used to combine the constraining member with the carrier while the light guide plate is restrained against movement by the constraining surface of the constraining member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Teng-Yi Huang, Ming-Cheng Lin, Yung-Chieh Chao
  • Patent number: 10197836
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of display, particularly to a spliced display and a display system. The spliced display includes clips and a number of display modules. The display modules can be spliced into an image display area, and adjacent two display modules can be connected by clips. By connecting adjacent two display modules by clips into the spliced display, the assembling time can be reduced, the assembling process can be simplified, and this is advantageous to mass production of products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhihong Du
  • Patent number: 10185079
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a display apparatus having a quantum dot sheet to change color by converting the wavelength of blue lights, a middle mold having a middle supporting unit to support a front edge unit of a light guide plate, and a supplement member coupled to the middle supporting unit and configured to reflect the light radiated from the a source to prevent the light that is radiated from the light source from exiting through the gap between the light guide plate and the middle supporting unit, and thus the generation of bright line may be minimized and heat radiation performance may be enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Gyu Yoon, Heong Seog Lee
  • Patent number: 10180598
    Abstract: An in-plane switching liquid crystal display having a plurality of protrude electrodes of a special shape is disclosed. Each of the protrusion electrodes has a protrusion body with a surface coated with an electrically conductive material. The protrusion body has flat side located on the lower substrate of the liquid crystal display, defining the basewidth of the protrusion electrodes. The protrusion body has a top portion with a round head and a bottom portion with a waist portion, smaller than the basewidth. It has been found that, the round head of the top portion and the waist portion of the bottom portion can improve the efficiency of the optical transmissivity of the liquid crystal layer as well the contrast between the bright state and the dark state of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: A.U. Vista, Inc.
    Inventor: Yi-Fen Lan
  • Patent number: 10168568
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display device comprising a display panel, wherein a first polarizer is arranged at a side of the display panel that is opposite to the side for displaying images, and a functional component with a grid structure and a second polarizer are arranged in sequence along the direction away from the display panel at the side for displaying images, the second polarizer being capable of scattering light rays that penetrate the second polarizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., HEFEI XINSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Zhang, Wei Yan
  • Patent number: 10162210
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel, a method for producing the same and a display apparatus. The touch panel includes: a first substrate, a second substrate opposed to the first substrate, a display medium layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a black matrix arranged on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of driving electrode units and a plurality of inductive electrode units arranged alternatively on the other one of the first substrate and the second substrate, and each of the plurality of driving electrode units or the plurality of inductive electrode units includes a plurality of transparent electrodes and projections of boundaries of the transparent electrodes onto the substrate having the black matrix are covered by the black matrix or coincide with the range of the black matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiangxiang Zou
  • Patent number: 10162226
    Abstract: Disclosed is a pixel electrode and an array substrate. The pixel electrode is divided into four alignment regions, and each of the alignment regions includes two trunk electrodes arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction respectively. The trunk electrode in the vertical direction is located at independent edges of each of the alignment regions. Each of the trunk electrodes has a maximum width at a perpendicular intersecting point of the trunk electrodes. The pixel electrode significantly reduces a dark area inside of a pixel unit and increases transmittance of a pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jinbo Guo
  • Patent number: 10162230
    Abstract: An array substrate, and a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, pixel units disposed on the base substrate, and a first and a second electrodes disposed within the pixel units. The first electrode is disposed above the second electrode and comprises a strip-shaped first opening area having a first and a second ends and extending along a first direction. An orthogonal projection of a transmitting area of the pixel units to the base substrate covers an orthogonal projection of a part of the first opening area. An orthogonal projection of a non-transmitting area of the pixel units covers orthogonal projections of the first end and second ends to the base substrate. In this way, an electric field component resulting in disordered rotation of liquid crystal molecules is located in the non-transmitting area of the pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: XIAMEN TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TIANMA MICRO-ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yangzhao Ma, Ling Wu, Boping Shen
  • Patent number: 10156756
    Abstract: A liquid crystal panel and a pixel structure thereof are described. The pixel structure has a common electrode, a protecting layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a plurality of first channels. The protecting layer is located on the common electrode; the pixel electrodes are located on the protecting layer; and the first channels are located between the neighboring pixel electrodes and pass through the protecting layer, so that the first channels expose a top surface of the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yafeng Li, Xiangyi Peng
  • Patent number: 10156747
    Abstract: A display device optimized to operate in a low frame rate mode under certain predetermined conditions is provided. To reduce pixel discharge during the low frame rate mode, the display device employees the TFTs with metal oxide semiconductor layer, the optical alignment layer with an upper portion and a lower portion having different resistivity. In addition, a passivation layer is provided between the optical alignment layer and the pixel or the common electrode for compensating the low resistivity of the lower portion of the optical alignment layer. As such, various visual defects associated with the pixel discharge can be reduced even when the display device is operating under the low frame rate mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yousung Nam, Changseung Woo, Soonhwan Hong