Patents Examined by Lucy Chien
  • Patent number: 9146421
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display. An upper surface alignment layer in the liquid crystal display is arranged to comprise, in the direction from a color filter substrate to a liquid crystal layer, a first upper surface alignment layer, a color washout compensation film layer and a second upper surface alignment layer; an alignment direction of the color washout compensation film layer is opposite to the pre-alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer. In the technical solution, the color washout compensation film layer is used to rectify the color washout problem occurring when the screen of a liquid crystal display screen of a fringe field switching mode is viewed from both the left side and right sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunsic Choi, Hui Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Jung Mok Jun
  • Patent number: 9146433
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate, gate lines extended in a first direction on the substrate, data lines extended in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction on the substrate, and pixels connected to the gate and data lines. Each pixel includes a transistor having one end connected to a data line, and a gate electrode connected to a corresponding gate line, a liquid crystal layer disposed in a tunnel-shaped cavity, first and second electrodes for applying an electric field to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode of each pixel is connected to another end of the transistor, a second electrode of each pixel overlaps the first electrode of one of its adjacent pixels, and the first electrode of each pixel overlaps a second electrode of another one of its adjacent pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Han Bae, Seonggyu Kwon, Donghyun Yu, Hyung-Il Jeon
  • Patent number: 9134559
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method of preparing a conducting film on an ultra-thin glass substrate. The preparing method uses magnetron sputtering, setting an initial magnetron sputtering power and/or an initial flow rate of argon to deposit the conducting film, detecting film layer stress of the conducting film by a pressure sensor on provided on the ultra-thin glass substrate, and adjusting a magnetron sputtering power and/or a flow rate of argon gas in real time according to the detected film layer stress, such that an absolute value of the film layer stress is kept below a predetermined value; the ultra-thin glass substrate has a thickness less than 0.1 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Weifeng Zhou, Jianshe Xue
  • Patent number: 9134763
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing and a display device. The housing includes at least one recess. The display device includes a plurality of layers that externally couple to the housing. One of the layers includes at least one tab extending perpendicular to a surface of the display device. The tab is coupled to at least a portion of a perimeter of the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Carl Degiovine
  • Patent number: 9128229
    Abstract: A backlight device includes a light guide plate including a plurality of edges and a light source bar. At least one of the plurality of edges includes a depression, the light source bar is positioned within the depression and includes a plurality of light sources, and the plurality of light sources emit light in different directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-Hwan Jeon, Yong Woo Kim, Chang Young Bang, In-Su Baek, Ju-Hyun Shin, Sang A An
  • Patent number: 9128340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel includes a top polarizer, a top TFT substrate, a blue phase liquid crystal layer, a bottom TFT substrate, and a bottom polarizer, which are sequentially stacked from top to bottom. The top and bottom TFT substrates have identical IPS electrode structures and the IPS electrode structures respectively drives the top and bottom TFT substrates. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel further includes a color filter, which is arranged at one side of the top TFT substrate or one side of the bottom TFT substrate. The dual-TFT-substrate blue-phase liquid crystal display panel of the present invention uses an arrangement of dual-side IPS structure to reduce the operation voltage of a blue phase liquid crystal display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xinhui Zhong
  • Patent number: 9122087
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display region including a plurality of display pixels arrayed in a matrix, an array substrate including a plurality of first electrodes which are arrayed in a matrix, second electrodes which are arranged on the same layer as a layer of the first electrodes and connect the first electrodes to each other, and third electrodes which are arrayed in a matrix on the first electrodes and the second electrodes, a countersubstrate which is arranged to face the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer which is interposed between the array substrate and the countersubstrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Doi, Toshihiro Ninomiya
  • Patent number: 9121984
    Abstract: The disclosure discloses a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display comprising thereof. The backlight unit comprises a light guiding plate comprising a plurality of light guiding plate units, which are arranged as a matrix along longitudinal and traversal directions, with line-shaped gaps extending respectively along traversal or longitudinal direction existing between two adjacent light guiding plate units; a light source provided at a side of light guiding plate; and a diffusing sheet provided above the light guiding plate. At a position corresponding to the line-shaped gap between the two adjacent light guiding plate units, the diffusing sheet has a shape of line-shaped projection, and the line-shaped projection has a projected direction in a direction of the light emitted from the light guiding plate unit. According to the disclosure, the uniformity of the backlight may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing Ma, Daekeun Yoon, Fei Shang
  • Patent number: 9123587
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a thin-film transistor substrate including: a substrate; a gate electrode disposed on the substrate; a gate insulating layer disposed on the substrate and covering the gate electrode; an active layer disposed on the gate insulating layer and above the gate electrode; an etching stop layer disposed on the active layer; a source electrode disposed on the etching stop layer and electrically connecting the active layer; a first insulating layer disposed on the etching stop layer and covering the source electrode; and a transparent electrode including a drain electrode and a pixel electrode connected thereto, wherein the drain electrode passes through the first insulating layer and the etching stop layer and directly contacts the active layer to electrically connect the active layer, and the pixel electrode is disposed the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Hao Tsai, Chih-Lung Lin
  • Patent number: 9116391
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention relates to a liquid crystal display. An upper surface alignment layer in the liquid crystal display is arranged to comprise, in the direction from a color filter substrate to a liquid crystal layer, a first upper surface alignment layer, a color washout compensation film layer and a second upper surface alignment layer; an alignment direction of the color washout compensation film layer is opposite to the pre-alignment direction of the liquid crystal layer. In the technical solution, the color washout compensation film layer is used to rectify the color washout problem occurring when the screen of a liquid crystal display screen of a fringe field switching mode is viewed from both the left side and right sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunsic Choi, Hui Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Jung Mok Jun
  • Patent number: 9116407
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The array substrate comprises: gate scanning lines and data signal lines; pixel regions, defined by gate scanning lines and data signal lines; thin film transistors, each comprised in each of the pixel regions; pixel electrodes, each covering each of the pixel regions and comprising first and second pixel electrodes, wherein the pixel regions are divided into first and second pixel regions, the first and second pixel regions both are provided at intervals, and each of the first pixel regions is covered with a corresponding first pixel electrode, and the first and second pixel electrodes are respectively located in first and second layers, and each of the second pixel regions is covered with a corresponding second pixel electrode, and an insulating layer is provided between the first and second layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 9110299
    Abstract: In an embodiment of the invention, a 3D display device is provided. The 3D display device includes: a first substrate including a plurality of right eye pixels and left eye pixels in an alternate arrangement; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first optical modulating unit with a first inclined direction located in the right eye pixels between the first substrate and the second substrate; a second optical modulating unit with a second inclined direction located in the left eye pixels between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first inclined direction is distinct from the second inclined direction; and a light transparent element disposed on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignees: INNOCOM TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toshiya Inada
  • Patent number: 9110330
    Abstract: An automatic darkening and glare reducing liquid crystal mirror for vehicles is disclosed. The mirror has a front substrate (101) of transparent glass or plastic and a back substrate (109) of glass or plastic with a highly reflective or transflective mirrored coating (108). The front and back substrates are spaced apart a small distance to define a liquid crystal cell between the substrates and a liquid crystal fluid (106) incorporating dichroic dyes is contained within the liquid crystal cell. A conductive thin film (102) is applied onto the interior surface of the front substrate and the reflective or transflective coating (108) of the back substrate also is conductive. An alignment compound is deposited on the conductive thin film (102) and on the reflective or transflective coating (108) and the alignment compound bounds the liquid crystal cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Opti-Source LLC
    Inventors: Walter Y. Wen, Robin Hines, Chai T. Chang
  • Patent number: 9110303
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide a three dimensional (3D) display panel and a method of manufacturing a phase difference plate. The 3D display panel comprises: a display panel which comprises a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, the first substrate comprising a first polarizer, the second substrate comprising a second polarizer; and a phase difference plate which is directly disposed on a surface of the first substrate on an opposite side of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youmei Dong, Yanbing Wu
  • Patent number: 9110359
    Abstract: A display device having a liquid crystal lens arranged on a display panel, wherein the display panel includes pixels arranged in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. Each of the pixels includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction and having a first width in the first direction and a second width in the second direction, and the liquid crystal lens is formed by interposing a liquid crystal between a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a plurality of first electrodes in stripes, extending in the first direction, and arranged in the second direction, and the second substrate includes a plurality of second electrodes in stripes and a plurality of third electrodes in stripes, extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction at predetermined intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Toshio Miyazawa, Terunori Saitou
  • Patent number: 9110323
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a light guide plate includes a light guide plate main body disposed with one end side thereof opposed to a light source and convex portions provided on the both lateral portions in positions separate from the both end portions toward the center of the light guide plate main body. A frame includes fitted portions recessed in positions corresponding to the respective convex portions, into which the convex portions are to be fitted. A bonding member bonds the fitted portions and the convex portions fitted into the respective fitted portions and serves as a light-blocking member covering the interior of the fitted portions and the exterior of the convex portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Toshikatsu Sugimoto, Yusuke Matsuzaki
  • Patent number: 9110324
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) module includes a liquid crystal panel, a mold frame provided below the liquid crystal panel and supporting the liquid crystal panel, a light guide plate provided below the mold frame, and a light source assembly coupled to an outside of the mold frame to accommodate the light guide plate therein, the light source assembly partially inserted into the mold frame, and supplying light to the light guide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joo-Woan Cho, Se-Ki Park, Seong-Sik Choi
  • Patent number: 9104077
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display device is provided with a thin film transistor which includes a gate electrode film that is provided in a first electrode layer located over a first insulating layer, a semiconductor film that is disposed over the gate electrode film via a second insulating layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode that are provided in a second electrode layer located over the semiconductor film and are in contact with an upper surface of the semiconductor film, and a light blocking film that is disposed under the first insulating layer. At least a part thereof overlaps the semiconductor film and the gate electrode film in a plan view. One of the drain electrode and the source electrode is connected to a gate line, and the light blocking film is electrically connected to the source electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Takahiro Ochiai, Motoharu Miyamoto, Masahiro Hoshiba
  • Patent number: 9104053
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display includes: a liquid crystal panel containing an effective pixel region that is configured to emit light corresponding to an image; and a frame member provided on a light emission side of the liquid crystal panel, and having an opening opposed to the effective pixel region of the liquid crystal panel. An edge portion of the opening of the frame member is formed of a low-reflection material having a reflectance of less than about 1.5% to green light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hiroshi Kobayashi, Kouichi Oomura, Yoshihiro Mizuguchi, Yoshihiro Hirakawa, Daishi Takaki
  • Patent number: 9104060
    Abstract: A liquid crystal display panel is disclosed, which comprises: a first substrate with a metal layer formed thereon; a first passivation layer, formed on the metal layer; a color filter layer with a first opening, disposed on the first passivation layer; a first electrode, formed on the color filter layer; a second passivation layer with a second opening, disposed on the first electrode layer and covering partial sidewall of the first opening, wherein the second opening corresponds to the first opening to expose the metal layer; a second electrode layer disposed on the second passivation layer and electrically connecting to the metal layer; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a light-shielding layer, disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and comprising a filling part, wherein the filling part is disposed in the second opening and covers the exposed color filter layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yung-Ching Lee, Chia-Sen Chang