Patents Examined by Ida M. Soward
  • Patent number: 11930652
    Abstract: An organic light emitting display apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a pixel electrode on the substrate; an opposite electrode on the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode transmitting light; an organic light emitting layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer emitting a first light toward the opposite electrode; a light emitting layer on the opposite electrode, the light emitting layer absorbing a portion of the first light and emitting a second light; and a sealing layer on the light emitting layer, the sealing layer sealing the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chi-O Cho, Byungchoon Yang, Young-Jun Seo, Won Sang Park
  • Patent number: 11930668
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a flexible light-emitting device with long lifetime in a simple way and to provide an inexpensive electronic device with long lifetime using the flexible light-emitting device. A flexible light-emitting device is provided, which includes a substrate having flexibility and a light-transmitting property with respect to visible light; a first adhesive layer over the substrate; an insulating film containing nitrogen and silicon over the first adhesive layer; a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an EL layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second adhesive layer over the second electrode; and a metal substrate over the second adhesive layer, wherein the thickness of the metal substrate is 10 ?m to 200 ?m inclusive. Further, an electronic device using the flexible light-emitting device is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Hatano, Satoshi Seo, Takaaki Nagata, Tatsuya Okano
  • Patent number: 11923310
    Abstract: A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a first through via structure formed in a substrate and a semiconductor die formed below the first through via structure. The package structure further includes a conductive structure formed in a passivation layer over the substrate. The conductive structure includes a first via portion and a second via portion, the first via portion is directly over the first through via structure, and there is no conductive material directly below and in direct contact with the second via portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Kai Cheng, Tsung-Shu Lin, Tsung-Yu Chen, Hsien-Pin Hu, Wen-Hsin Wei
  • Patent number: 11925054
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a third area; a display element on the substrate; a thin-film encapsulation layer covering the display element; a first dam portion at the third area, the first dam portion being adjacent to the second area; a second dam portion at the third area, and spaced from the first dam portion; and at least one groove at the third area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiyoun Lee, Hyunyoung Kim, Sunbeom Kwon, Kyuree Kim, Rohyeon Park, Jongryuk Park, Insuk Yang
  • Patent number: 11925072
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display panel including a first electrode, a pixel defining layer including a first opening that exposes at least a portion of the first electrode, a light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode, a display device layer including a second electrode disposed on the light emitting layer, and a thin-film encapsulation layer that overlaps the display device layer, an input sensing panel disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer and including a sensing insulation layer and a conductive layer, and an organic insulation layer that overlaps the sensing insulation layer and includes a second opening overlapping the first opening. A side surface of the organic insulation layer defines the second opening and includes protruding side surfaces inclined in different directions from a side surface of the pixel defining layer, and the side surface of the pixel defining layer defines the first opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin-Su Byun, Woongsik Kim, Donghwan Bae, Sanghyun Lee
  • Patent number: 11917858
    Abstract: The display device includes a light-emitting element layer provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a TFT layer that is provided below the light-emitting element layer and includes TFT configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements. Further, at least one thermal insulation layer configured to thermally insulate the plurality of light-emitting elements from external heat is provided, and the thermal insulation layer includes a molybdenum-containing complex and a polyphenylene sulfide-based resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Masanobu Mizusaki
  • Patent number: 11917881
    Abstract: A display device includes light transmitting areas including a first light transmitting area and light emitting areas around the light transmitting areas and including a first light emitting area disposed around the first light transmitting area, wherein the first light emitting area includes a first-first light emitting area adjacent to a first portion of each of the light transmitting areas, a first-second light emitting area adjacent to a second portion of each of the light transmitting areas, a first-third light emitting area adjacent to a third portion of each of the light transmitting areas, and a first-fourth light emitting area disposed adjacent to a fourth portion of each of the light transmitting areas. The first-first to first-fourth light emitting areas each include at least one of first to third light emitting portions to emit light of first to third colors, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woong Hee Jeong, Ki Bum Kim, Jin Yeong Kim, Hyang A Park, Tae Hoon Yang, Jong Chan Lee
  • Patent number: 11917848
    Abstract: A protective window includes a glass substrate which faces a display surface of an image-generating panel and has a thickness of about 20 micrometers to about 80 micrometers; a protective film which faces the display surface of the image-generating panel with the glass substrate therebetween; an adhesive layer which is between the protective film and the glass substrate and combines the protective film with the glass substrate; and a protective layer which covers an edge portion of the glass substrate. A thickness of the protective layer which covers the edge portion of the glass substrate is equal to or less than about ? of a thickness of the adhesive layer which combines the protective film with the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jai Ku Shin, Dong Jin Park, Dongwoo Seo, Sung Chul Choi
  • Patent number: 11899319
    Abstract: Disclosed is a display device having a thin film transistor substrate, which may prevent afterimage and flicker defects by reducing the non-uniformity of an electric field. In the thin film transistor substrate, a pixel electrode includes a transparent edge electrode and a transparent inner electrode, which are spaced apart from each other with a first slit having a first width interposed therebetween, and a common electrode is exposed from the other-side end of the transparent edge electrode by a second width, which is smaller than the first width, in the width direction of a data line. As such, an inner area and an edge area in each sub pixel have uniform electric field distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Yeon Kim, Byung-Sam Min, Jong-Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 11903242
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area around the display area, the substrate having a bent portion; a plurality of display elements in the display area; and a thin film encapsulation layer over the plurality of display elements and including a first encapsulation layer, a second encapsulation layer over the first encapsulation layer, and an organic encapsulation layer between the first encapsulation layer and the second encapsulation layer, wherein the second encapsulation layer includes a plurality of inorganic thin layers and a plurality of organic thin layers alternately arranged, and a thickness of the second encapsulation layer is equal to or less than a thickness of the first encapsulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sunhee Lee, Sunho Kim, Gunhee Kim, Donghwan Shim, Taehoon Yang
  • Patent number: 11903236
    Abstract: A display device includes: a base substrate including a front surface and a rear surface, and including a display region and a peripheral region adjacent to the display region in a plan view; an organic light-emitting element on the display region; and a sealing layer on the organic light-emitting element. The base substrate includes: a module hole in the display region, and passing through the front surface and the rear surface; a first recess at the display region and recessed from the front surface, the first recess surrounding the module hole in the plan view; and a second recess at the display region and recessed from the front surface, the second recess surrounding the first recess in the plan view. The first recess and the second recess have different widths from each other in a direction parallel to the front surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Moonwon Chang, Seunghun Kim, Woo Yong Sung, Sooyoun Kim, Junghan Seo
  • Patent number: 11895861
    Abstract: A display device includes a base; a light emitting element on the base; a capping layer on the light emitting element; a thin-film encapsulation layer including a first inorganic layer on the capping layer, an organic layer on the first inorganic layer, and a second inorganic layer on the organic layer; and a wavelength conversion pattern on the thin-film encapsulation layer and overlapping the light emitting element, wherein the first inorganic layer includes two sub-inorganic layers having different refractive indices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong Tack Kim, Cheol Eon Park, Hak Joong Yong, Yun Kyu Lee, Yoon Hyeung Cho
  • Patent number: 11894311
    Abstract: A microelectronic device is formed to include an embedded die substrate on an interposer; where the embedded die substrate is formed with no more than a single layer of transverse routing traces. In the device, all additional routing may be allocated to the interposer to which the embedded die substrate is attached. The embedded die substrate may be formed with a planarized dielectric formed over an initial metallization layer supporting the embedded die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Alan May, Islam A. Salama, Sri Ranga Sai Boyapati, Sheng Li, Kristof Darmawikarta, Robert L. Sankman, Amruthavalli Pallavi Alur
  • Patent number: 11889712
    Abstract: A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting device includes an anode, a cathode, and an EL layer positioned between the anode and the cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer and an electron-transport layer; the light-emitting layer includes a light-emitting material; the electron-transport layer includes an organic compound having an electron-transport property and a metal complex of an alkali metal; the ordinary refractive index of the organic compound having an electron-transport property in a peak wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting material is greater than or equal to 1.50 and less than or equal to 1.75; and the ordinary refractive index of the metal complex of an alkali metal in the peak wavelength of the light emitted from the light-emitting material is greater than or equal to 1.45 and less than or equal to 1.70.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Inventors: Yuta Kawano, Airi Ueda, Takeyoshi Watabe, Nobuharu Ohsawa, Keito Tosu, Harue Osaka, Satoshi Seo, Ryo Narukawa, Shiho Nomura
  • Patent number: 11889713
    Abstract: A display device of the present disclosure includes a first substrate on which light-emitting units are formed, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, and a seal part which bonds the first substrate and the second substrate. In addition, at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a recess formed at a portion outside an area of the light-emitting units, and the seal part is formed outside the recess. Further, an electronic apparatus of the present disclosure has the display device having the aforementioned configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Shinya Okuzono, Hidetoshi Haraguchi, Ichiro Fujimoto, Naoki Nagasako
  • Patent number: 11889718
    Abstract: A display panel including a base layer; a circuit layer; an emission layer including first, second and third emission areas respectively corresponding to first, second and third pixel areas; an organic encapsulation layer having a flat top surface; an inorganic encapsulation layer on the top surface of the organic encapsulation layer and having a first refractive index; a functional layer disposed on the inorganic encapsulation aver and having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index; and a partition wall disposed on the functional layer and including first, second and third openings, wherein the first, second and third openings respectively correspond to the first, second and third pixel areas, wherein a total reflection critical angle between the inorganic encapsulation layer and the functional layer is less than a reference incident angle of reference light traveling from the first emission area toward the partition wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eung Seok Park, Yongtack Kim, Yoonhyeung Cho, Myungchul Yeo
  • Patent number: 11877470
    Abstract: A display module is provided, which includes a display panel and a support structure. The display panel includes a bending region, and the support structure includes a first encapsulation layer, support plates, and a second encapsulation layer sequentially disposed on the display panel. An accommodation space is defined among the first encapsulation layer, the support plates, and the second encapsulation layer, the accommodation space is positioned corresponding to the bending region, and a fluid material is arranged in the accommodation space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wenqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 11839098
    Abstract: Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a transparent display region and a non-transparent display region. The display panel includes at least a first cathode and a second cathode; the first cathode is in the transparent display region; the second cathode is in the non-transparent display region; a first work function of the first cathode is greater than a second work function of the second cathode; and the first work function of the first cathode and the second working function of the second cathode are respectively in a range from 3.8 eV to 4.1 eV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Kunshan Go-Visionox Opto-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Lv
  • Patent number: 11832476
    Abstract: A display panel includes at least one light transmitting layer, which includes at least one first sub-region and at least one second sub-region. A thickness of the first sub-region is different from a thickness of the second sub-region; the first sub-region includes a first surface proximate to a display surface of the display panel and a second surface facing away from the display surface of the display panel, and the second sub-region includes a third surface proximate to the display surface of the display panel and a fourth surface facing away from the display surface of the display panel; and for visible light, a phase difference between light reflected by the first surface and light reflected by the second surface is ?1, and a phase difference between light reflected by the third surface and light reflected by the fourth surface is ?2, where 0.5??|?1??2|?1.5?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hubei Yangtze Industrial Innovation Center Of Advanced Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yang Zeng
  • Patent number: 11832481
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate, a first electrode, a pixel defining block, an organic common layer, a second electrode, an adhesive layer, and a thin film encapsulation layer. The organic common layer corresponding to the pixel defining block is defined with a through hole, and the adhesive layer is filled, which realizes a strong adhesion between the second electrode and the pixel defining block, and reduces a risk of peeling between layers of the organic common layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Congcong Fan, Shengfang Liu