Patents Examined by Richard H Kim
  • Patent number: 11966050
    Abstract: The head-up display apparatus includes: a display unit configured to output projection light; at least one reflector configured to reflect the projection light; a housing, which has an opening portion, and is configured to store the display unit and the reflector therein; a cover member configured to cover the opening portion; and a polarizing plate with a retardation layer, which is arranged on a housing inner side of the cover member, and includes a retardation layer and a polarizer in the stated order from a cover member side. The retardation layer has an in-plane retardation Re(550) of 3,000 nm or more. The head-up display apparatus is configured so that an angle of reflection of the projection light output from the housing through the opening portion with respect to a windshield is 30° or less, or is 40° or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: NITTO DENKO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takehito Fuchida, Yoshiaki Asanoi, Katsunori Takada
  • Patent number: 11960187
    Abstract: A display device includes: an array substrate; a counter substrate; a liquid crystal layer; and a light source that emits light into a side surface of the array substrate or a side surface of the counter substrate. The display device includes: first wiring lines in a first peripheral region outside a display region, the first wiring lines being configured to be supplied with a constant potential; and second wiring lines in a second peripheral region located opposite to the first peripheral region with the display region therebetween, the second wiring lines being coupled to the scanning lines. A shape of a region occupied by the first wiring lines in the first peripheral region is obtained by inverting a shape of a region occupied by the second wiring lines in the second peripheral region, in a mirror-symmetrical manner. The first wiring lines are not coupled to the scanning lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Yoshihide Ohue
  • Patent number: 11953785
    Abstract: A display panel, a display apparatus and a control method therefor. The electrode group included in the display panel is used for controlling, when loaded with a voltage, the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer, such that when the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is less than the refractive index of the first substrate, light emitted by the light-emitting module is propagated by means of total reflection in the first substrate, and when the refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is greater than the refractive index of the first substrate, the light emitted by the light-emitting module is propagated toward the second substrate from the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhongxiao Li, Pengxia Liang
  • Patent number: 11947205
    Abstract: This application relates to a flexible display cover plate, a display panel, and a display apparatus. The flexible display cover plate includes a first cover-plate layer and at least one auxiliary protective layer that is disposed on a face of the first cover-plate layer. The auxiliary protective layer includes a bonding layer and a second cover-plate layer that are superimposed along a direction away from the first cover-plate layer. The bonding layer is a deformable film layer, and a face that is of an outermost second cover-plate layer in the at least one auxiliary protective layer and that is away from the bonding layer is used to attach to a display substrate. When the flexible display cover plate receives external force, both the first cover-plate layer and the auxiliary protective layer can absorb and diffuse impact of the external force, thereby improving a protection effect for the display substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhaoliang Su, Chenxin Ouyang, Wangchun Lyu, Peiqiong Shen, Qiuming Yu
  • Patent number: 11943893
    Abstract: An electronics equipment cabinet includes multiple cabinet walls defining an interior enclosure space for housing at least one electronic device, an outer wall positioned to shield from solar radiation an outer surface of at least one of the multiple cabinet walls, and at least one divider wall positioned between the outer wall and the cabinet wall to define first and second channels. The cabinet wall has two openings to allow internal cabinet air to flow between the interior enclosure space and the first channel, while inhibiting external ambient air from entering the interior enclosure space and the first channel. The outer wall has two openings positioned to allow external ambient air to flow through the second channel to cool the internal cabinet air in the first channel via heat exchange through the divider wall, while inhibiting the external cabinet air from mixing with the internal cabinet air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Vertiv Corporation
    Inventors: Utkarsh Diliprao Charapale, Srinivasan Natarajan, Adarsh Khandelwal
  • Patent number: 11940688
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a pixel and a drive circuit configured to drive the pixel, a light source device configured to emit emitted light toward the display panel, and a color separation element placed between the display panel and the light source device, the color separation element being configured to disperse the emitted light and to emit, to the pixel, a plurality of rays of separated light with wavelengths different from each other. The color separation element includes a separation region configured to emit the separated light and a light-shielding region configured to block the emitted light heading toward the drive circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventor: Shuichi Osawa
  • Patent number: 11940695
    Abstract: A manufacturing method of a light modulation panel, a light modulation panel and a light modulation device. The light modulation panel comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate arranged in align with each other, a liquid crystal filled between the first substrate and the second substrate, and spacer structures located between the first substrate and the second substrate and configured to maintain a cell gap of the liquid crystal; wherein the spacer structures comprise a first post spacer and a second post spacer arranged in a cascaded manner, the first post spacer is arranged on a side of the first substrate close to the second substrate, the second post spacer is arranged on a side of the second substrate close to the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sikai Zhang, Chunlei Wang, Jing Yu
  • Patent number: 11934071
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a display panel and an image sensor element, the display panel includes a first area that does not overlap the image sensor element and a second area that overlaps the image sensor element, the display panel includes a first electrode, a second electrode that overlaps the first electrode, and a liquid crystal layer, the second electrode includes a plurality of first slits provided in the first area and a plurality of second slits provided in the second area, the second electrode includes a plurality of first slits provided in the first area and a plurality of second slits provided in the second area, the plurality of second slits are arranged based on a Fibonacci sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuhide Mochizuki, Yoshiro Aoki
  • Patent number: 11934077
    Abstract: Provided is an array substrate which includes a base substrate; a plurality of common electrodes disposed on a side of the base substrate; a plurality of data lines disposed on a side of the base substrate, wherein with respect to each of the data lines, a distance between the data line and a first target common electrode is different from a distance between the data line and a second target common electrode; and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in an array and disposed on a side of the base substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: Hefei BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd., BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi Liu, Zhenkun Yu, Zexu Liu, Wei Zhang, Lu Niu
  • Patent number: 11919393
    Abstract: A display assembly for inducing turbulent flow and integrating an electric vehicle charger. A first and second subassembly are connected to a structural framework, each including a cover, an electronic display layer located behind the cover, a rear panel located behind the electronic display layer, and a fan assembly located at a rear surface of the rear panel. The electric vehicle charger is also connected to the structural framework.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Manufacturing Resources International, Inc.
    Inventors: William Dunn, Marcos Diaz, Mike Brown, Kevin O'Connor, Alex Moreau
  • Patent number: 11914238
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a frame and a display device. The frame includes a frame body having a first end surface and a second end surface disposed oppositely, and the first end surface is used for mounting a first body portion of a first component, and the frame body is provided with a first opening penetrating from the first end surface to the second end surface, and the first opening is used to make a driving circuit board of the first component and a first connecting portion pass, the first connecting portion is used for connecting the first body portion with the drive circuit board, and the second end surface of the frame body is provided with an inclined surface extending outwardly in a direction away from the first end surface from the first opening, and the inclined surface is used for mounting the driving circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiguo Shen, Xing Zhao
  • Patent number: 11906856
    Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate disposed opposite to the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. Through applying voltages at different partitions on a side of a color filter substrate, liquid crystal molecules have different deflection angles at different voltage parts, which can arrange the liquid crystal molecules in multiple directions on a vertical plane, ensuring high aperture ratio, and improving display viewing angles of the display device while increasing alignment domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jing Liu
  • Patent number: 11906860
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a substrate, a driving element, a first transparent conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a second transparent conductive layer. The driving element is disposed on the substrate and includes a drain electrode having a first edge. The first transparent conductive layer is disposed on the driving element. The insulating layer is disposed between the driving element and the first transparent conductive layer and includes a hole through which the first transparent conductive layer is electrically connected to the driving element. The second transparent conductive layer is disposed on the insulating layer. One of the first and second transparent conductive layers includes at least one slit, and the first or second transparent conductive layer that includes the at least one slit has a second edge. The second edge is located in the hole, and the at least one slit exposes the first edge of the drain electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Innolux Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Yen Chiu, Ming-Jou Tai, You-Cheng Lu, Yi-Shiuan Cherng, Yi-Hsiu Wu, Chia-Hao Tsai, Yung-Hsun Wu
  • Patent number: 11899295
    Abstract: A display device includes: a curved first substrate; a second substrate opposing the first substrate; a plurality of connection pads disposed on a side surface of the first substrate and a side surface of the second substrate; and at least one flexible circuit board including a plurality of projections respectively coupled to the plurality of connection pads, wherein the plurality of projections forms an array of projections along an edge of the side surface of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun Jin Maeng, Min Su Jung
  • Patent number: 11899328
    Abstract: The display device includes a first substrate provided with a driver circuit region that is located outside and adjacent to a pixel region and includes at least one second transistor which supplies a signal to the first transistor in each of the pixels in the pixel region, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the first transistor and the second transistor, a second interlayer insulating film including an organic insulating material over the first interlayer insulating film, and a third interlayer insulating film including an inorganic insulating material over the second interlayer insulating film. The third interlayer insulating film is provided in part of an upper region of the pixel region, and has an edge portion on an inner side than the driver circuit region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuharu Hosaka, Yukinori Shima, Kenichi Okazaki, Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 11899324
    Abstract: An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a scanning line provided between a first TFT and a second TFT, common wiring, a pixel electrode, a third relay electrode including a projecting portion overlapping the scanning line in plan view and protruding from the scanning line and electrically coupling the first TFT and the pixel electrode, a capacitance element provided between the substrate and the scanning line and overlapping the second TFT in plan view, and a second relay electrode including a projecting portion overlapping the scanning line in plan view and protruding from the scanning line and electrically coupling the capacitance element and the common wiring. A contact hole electrically coupling the pixel electrode and the third relay electrode overlaps a contact hole electrically coupling the capacitance element and the second relay electrode in plan view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuaki Murohashi, Kikuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11892729
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes: a backplane, a bezel, a protrusion and a plurality of dimming film layers, wherein the bezel is connected to the backplane and includes: a fixing structure and a plurality of bezel sidewalls on which the fixing structure is disposed, the fixing structure has an orthographic projection on the backplane located within an orthographic projection of the bezel sidewalls on the backplane, the plurality of bezel sidewalls and the backplane define an accommodation space in which the dimming film layers are provided, and the protrusion is fixedly disposed on a side surface of at least one of the dimming film layers and fixed to the bezel sidewalls via the fixing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: K-Tronics (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ronghui Lin
  • Patent number: 11892719
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate, and the first substrate includes a glass substrate. A first metal layer, an insulating layer, a second metal layer, and a passivation protective layer are sequentially formed on a surface of the glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: HKC CORPORATION LIMITED
    Inventor: Huiping Wang
  • Patent number: 11892735
    Abstract: An array substrate, a light control panel and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes first and second signal lines. The first signal line includes bending-line structures including first to third wire portions; a center lines of the first wire portion intersects with a center line of the second wire portion to form a first angle; the second wire portion includes first and second sides; sides of the first and third wire portions closer to the second signal line respectively intersect with the first side at first, and second positions; sides of an orthographic projection of the second signal line on an electrode layer where the first signal line is located are intersected with the first side at third and fourth positions; a length of a line segment between first and second position is greater than a length of a line segment between third and fourth position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: HEFEI BOE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ruifeng Zhang, Jincheng Gao, Tao Jiang, Guanyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 11886062
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an optical device capable of surely curing a photocurable resin composition. The method for manufacturing an optical device 1 in which an optical member 2 and a transparent panel 4 are bonded together via a cured resin layer 3 includes: a step of forming, on one of the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4, a wall 12 surrounding a forming region for the cured resin layer 3 and having at least one opening 13; a step of laminating the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4 to form a laminated body 10 in which a resin filling space 14 surrounded by the wall 12 is formed between the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4; a step of filling the resin filling space 14 of the laminated body 10 with a photocurable resin composition 30; and a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 30 to form the cured resin layer 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Nagasawa