With External Optical Element Patents (Class 313/478)
  • Patent number: 11342629
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a battery module is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for manufacturing a battery module which comprises a module case, in which an internal space is formed by a bottom plate and sidewalls, and an injection port is formed in the bottom plate or the sidewalls; a plurality of battery cells existing in the internal space; and a resin layer in contact with the bottom plate or the sidewalls while being in contact with the battery cells, the method including attaching a tape to cover the injection port of the bottom plate or the sidewalls; mounting an injection device of a resin composition such that the injection device is mounted on the injection port while penetrating the tape, and injecting the resin composition into the mounted injection device. The method provides a simple process and at low cost without occurrence of a reverse discharge phenomenon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Eun Suk Park, Se Woo Yang, Yoon Gyung Cho, Yang Gu Kang, Hyun Suk Kim, Hyoung Sook Park, Sang Min Park, Young Jo Yang
  • Patent number: 11249204
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a radiation image detector and a manufacture method to produce the radiation image detector. The radiation image detector includes: a radiation conversion layer, configured to convert a radiation image into a visible light image; an image sensing layer for visible light, including a pixel array formed by a plurality of photosensitive pixels, configured to detect the visible light image; and a microlens layer, disposed between the radiation conversion layer and the image sensing layer, the microlens layer including a lens array formed by multiple micro convex lenses, and optical axes of the micro convex lenses being perpendicular to the image sensing layer. In addition, both the radiation conversion layer and the microlens layer have curved surface structures that are bended in the same direction that non-parallel radiations, emitted from an X-ray generator, will impinge perpendicularly on the radiation conversion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: IRAY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhongshou Huang, Tieer Gu
  • Patent number: 11211524
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic component includes providing a carrier with an upper side; arranging an optoelectronic semiconductor chip above the upper side of the carrier; arranging a casting material above the upper side of the carrier, wherein the optoelectronic semiconductor chip is embedded in the casting material, and the casting material forms a cast surface; simultaneously spraying particles and a further material onto the cast surface, wherein a mixture of the further material and the particles includes a proportion of the particles of 20 percent by weight to 60 percent by weight, a portion of the particles remains at the cast surface, and a topography is created at the cast surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Leisen, Herbert Brunner, Emilia Dinu, Jens Eberhard, Christina Keith, Markus Pindl, Thomas Reeswinkel, Daniel Richter
  • Patent number: 11192823
    Abstract: A laser-textured glass cover member suitable for use in an electronic device is disclosed. The laser-textured surface of the glass cover member may provide a smooth feel to an external surface of the electronic device without introducing a perceptible visual texture. Methods for making the laser-textured glass cover members are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael M. Li, Jairam Manjunathaiah, Palaniappan Chinnakaruppan
  • Patent number: 11117810
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method comprising heating a strontium-containing compound using radiation in a first reactor; decomposing the strontium-containing compound into an oxide and carbon dioxide as a result of heat generated by the exposure to the radiation; reacting the oxide and the carbon dioxide in a second reactor; where the oxide and carbon dioxide react to produce heat; heating a working fluid using the heat produced in the second reactor; and driving a turbine with the heated working fluid to generate energy. Disclosed herein too is a composition comprising strontium carbonate; and strontium zirconate; where the mass ratio of strontium carbonate to strontium zirconate 2:8 to 8:2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: James Klausner, Kelvin Fnu Randhir, Nicholas AuYueng, Like Li, Nathan Rhodes, Amey Anand Barde, Renwei Mei, David Worthington Hahn
  • Patent number: 10634988
    Abstract: A customer can install a lenticular projection screen without the need to hire a professional installer. A section of a home wall is smoothed flat and lenticular tiles are applied to it with adhesive together establishing a lenticular projection screen. Once the adhesive has dried, a short throw projector can perform an automatic alignment to gain the best possible picture from the lenticular screen. The installation material may be provided as a kit that a consumer can use to install the lenticular projection screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Richman, Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 10613428
    Abstract: A customer can install a lenticular projection screen without the need to hire a professional installer. A section of a home wall is smoothed flat and lenticular wallpaper is applied to it with adhesive. Once the adhesive has dried, a short throw projector can perform an automatic alignment to gain the best possible picture from the lenticular screen. The installation material may be provided as a kit that a consumer can use to install the lenticular projection screen. Instead of on a wall, the wallpaper may be placed on a stiff flat surface hung from an overhead bracket or attached to a backside wall mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Richman, Thomas Dawson
  • Patent number: 10554921
    Abstract: Techniques for video conferencing including obtaining a first image captured by a camera through a display device of a first device, receiving at the first device live images of a first participant of a video conferencing session, displaying a first composite image on the display device with an image portion of the eyes of the first participant at a lateral position corresponding to the camera, segmenting a foreground image from the first image that corresponds to a second participant of the video conferencing session, and causing via the video conferencing session a second composite image of the second device at a different geographic location, in which the second composite image includes the foreground image composited with a background image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Se Hoon Lim, Timothy Andrew Large
  • Patent number: 10437061
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and a lens, of a two-dimensional array of lenses. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. Each lens is configured to direct at least a portion of the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user. The display device also includes one or more processors configured to obtain a transformed image for forming a non-transformed image on a retina of the eye; and activate a subset of the two-dimensional array of tiles for outputting, from at least the subset of the two-dimensional array of tiles, a collective pattern of light that is based on the transformed image and directed to the pupil of the eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Patent number: 10359629
    Abstract: A display device includes a two-dimensional array of tiles. Each tile includes a two-dimensional array of pixels and an electro-optic element of a two-dimensional array of electro-optic elements. Each pixel is configured to output light so that the two-dimensional array of pixels outputs a respective pattern of light. The electro-optic element is configured to direct at least a portion of the respective pattern of light from the two-dimensional array of pixels to a pupil of an eye of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mary Lou Jepsen
  • Patent number: 10303037
    Abstract: An optical beam steering system comprises an array of optical elements for generating or detecting optical signals, a coarse beam steering system for steering a beam between grating lobes, and a fine beam steering system for steering the beam within a grating lobe imposed by the coarse beam steering system. It can be applied the problem of providing an optical phased array system that has both a wide range of steering angles and good angular resolution with a reasonable number of array elements. By moving the lens array or controlling a liquid crystal cell, power is steered into different grating lobes. Adding a phase shifter for controlling the relative phase of the optical signals corresponding to the optical elements enables steering within the selected lobe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Spector, Benjamin Lane
  • Patent number: 10295835
    Abstract: A stereoscopic display device and a stereoscopic display method are provided. The stereoscopic display device comprises: a display unit configured for displaying an image and emitting emergent light; and at least two active scattering panels arranged at a light-emitting side of the display unit and in different planes. The active scattering panels are configured for performing a scattering process to the emergent light, so that the emergent light, after being scattered by the different active scattering panels, forms a stereoscopic picture. By providing a plurality of active scattering panels to achieve stereoscopic display without the provision of a plurality of display panels, it is possible to avoid the problem that backlight emitted by a backlight source is subjected to a serious reduction in transmittance after passing through a plurality of layers of display panels, thereby improving display brightness of a stereoscopic display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Guangkui Qin
  • Patent number: 10275063
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel which displays an image, a touch panel provided on the display panel and including a sensor area in which a plurality of electrodes for detecting touch operation are provided and a peripheral area provided around the sensor area, a controller which controls the plurality of electrodes, lead lines provided in the peripheral area to connect the electrodes provided in the sensor area to the controller and a conductive layer provided in a region which overlaps at least part of the lead lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kinichi Aoki, Hiromasa Miyashita, Harutoshi Kaneda
  • Patent number: 9995944
    Abstract: Optical stacks including a grating structure that generates diffraction in two in-plane dimensions. The optical stacks may include two gratings, which may be one-directional or two-directional, or may include a single two-directional grating. The optical stacks include particles selected to give controlled diffusion of light. The optical stacks are suitable for reducing sparkle in displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Brett J. Sitter, Marc D. Radcliffe, Thomas R. Hoffend, Jr., Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Daniel W. Hennen, Lan H. Liu
  • Patent number: 9969890
    Abstract: Provided is a fluorinated ether compound capable of imparting excellent antifouling properties such as oil-based ink repellency, fingerprint stain removability, to a hard coating layer; a composition for forming a hard coating layer, and an article having an antifouling hard coating layer formed from the composition. The fluorinated ether compound has either a poly(oxyperfluoroalkylene) chain having a repeated unit that includes a C1-2 oxyperfluoroalkylene group and a C3-6 oxyperfluoroalkylene group, bonded to each other, or a poly(oxyperfluoroalkylene) chain having a repeated unit that contains a C4 oxyperfluoroalkylene group and a different oxyperfluoroalkylene group, bonded to each other, a linking group bonded to a first terminal of the poly(oxyperfluoroalkylene) chain, and at least one (meth)acryloyl group bonded to the linking group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Asahi Glass Company, Limited
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Takao, Nobuyuki Otozawa, Daisuke Jomuta, Kuniko Okano, Taiki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9647185
    Abstract: A light emitting element having a light emitting layer, an electro-conductive reflection film that reflects light emitted from the light emitting layer and a substrate in this order, wherein the electro-conductive reflection film contains metal nanoparticles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI MATERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fuyumi Mawatari, Youji Kondou, Reiko Izumi, Yoshimasa Hayashi, Kazuhiko Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 9625619
    Abstract: An optical film assembly includes an anti-reflection film including a plurality of stacked anti-reflection layers, a side surface of the anti-reflection film being inclined with respect to an upper surface of a display panel, the anti-reflection layers having different thicknesses and different refractivities, and an anti-fingerprint film on the anti-reflection film, the anti-fingerprint film being integral with the anti-reflection film, the anti-fingerprint film being hydrophobic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soo-Won Kim, Moon-Seok Roh
  • Patent number: 9541791
    Abstract: A display device includes a flexible display panel, a light module and an optical film. The flexible display panel has a first axis and curving about the first axis as an axis of curvature. The light module is located on one side of the flexible display panel. The optical film is located between the flexible display panel and the light module. The optical film includes a substrate and multiple first strip microstructures. The substrate has a first side and a second side that are opposite to each other. The first side faces the light module while the second side faces the flexible display panel. The first strip microstructures are located on the first side of the substrate, and the first strip microstructures extend along a second axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: AU OPTRONICS CORP.
    Inventors: Ming-Lung Chen, Kun-Hung Hsieh
  • Patent number: 9484473
    Abstract: A glass substrate of which at least one surface multiple concave and convex portions. Rp representing the size of the convex portion is 37 nm to 200 nm; a tilt angle ?p indicating a maximum frequency in the frequency distribution of a tilt angle ? of the convex portion is 20° to 75°; and an absolute value of a difference between ?p and ?50 (?p??50) is 30° or less, where ?50 indicates a value showing 50% of a cumulative frequency distribution of the tilt angle ?. The concave and convex portion is such that the surface roughness (Ra) is 2 nm to 100 nm, the maximum height difference (P?V) is 35 nm to 400 nm, and the area ratio (S-ratio) is 1.1 to 3.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ASAHI GLASS COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Naoki Okahata
  • Patent number: 9477264
    Abstract: Provided are a window member for a display device of a portable terminal and a method for fabricating the window member. An inner surface of the window member is formed as a flat surface from a first end portion to a position adjacent to a second end portion, and an inner surface of the second end portion is formed inclined with respect to the flat surface in a direction toward an outer surface. According to the window member and the method for fabricating the same, shrinkage is minimized during hardening of melt resin by sufficiently delivering injection pressure for the melt resin over the entire molding space of a mold, thereby improving a product defect rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Su Chang, Soon-Ho Han, Duck-Yong Lee
  • Patent number: 9471105
    Abstract: A display apparatus includes a display device body with a screen, a frame attached to the display device body, the frame having an opening for exposing the screen, and a panel secured to the frame so as to face the screen, the panel being elastic, wherein the frame has four sides to which the panel is secured and at least one of the four sides has a section projecting ahead of the screen higher than both ends, the section being other than both ends in a longitudinal direction of the at least one of the four sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takeshi Murakami, Masuo Ohnishi, Yasafumi Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9462223
    Abstract: A telepresence system enhances the perception of presence of a remote person involved in a video conference. The system preferably has a two-way mirror, which is between the observer and the display device, positioned at an angle to reflect a backdrop surface. The backdrop surface may or may not appear superimposed in a position behind the image of a person from the remote location. The system preferably minimizes image distortion via an optical path for the camera line of sight that is substantially longer than the physical distance between the user and the camera. The system may be asymmetrical, in that one camera is on axis with the user's line of sight while the other camera is off axis with the user's line of sight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: TelePresence Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Peter McDuffie White
  • Patent number: 9201255
    Abstract: Apparatus including a first liquid crystal layer configured to receive at least a portion of an image and to provide the portion of the image across an angular viewing range; first substantially transparent electrodes positioned adjacent the first liquid crystal layer, the first electrodes being configured to have at least a first configuration in which a first subset of the electrodes provide electric fields across the first liquid crystal layer to form first transparent regions and first opaque regions in the first liquid crystal layer to provide a first angular viewing range, and a second configuration in which a second subset of the electrodes provide electric fields across the first liquid crystal layer to form second different transparent regions and second different opaque regions in the first liquid crystal layer to provide a second angular viewing range, having a different angular viewing range to the first angular viewing range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Liangfeng Xu, Huaya Cao, Kongqiao Wang, Ziqiang Huang, Jinbi Leng, Chenguang Cai
  • Patent number: 8816578
    Abstract: A display system and method uses a display element. The display element can provide linearly polarized light. A wave retarder film can be configured to adjust the phase of the linearly polarized light so that reflections of the linearly polarized light from a surface in the environment of the display are reduced. A first light control layer is configured to constrain the field of view of the display in at least a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Guolin Peng, Tracy J. Barnidge
  • Patent number: 8241418
    Abstract: The present invention provides a producing method of powder particles having an average particle diameter on the order of submicrons. Specifically, the producing method is a producing method of powder particles obtained by grinding a product to be ground by using plural grinding media, wherein the grinding media including at least one kind (grinding medium A) having an average particle diameter of 0.01 to 5 times and at least one kind (grinding medium B) having an average particle diameter of 10 to 450 times, with respect to the average particle diameter of the product to be ground before being ground, are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: TORAY Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazuki Shigeta, Atsushi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 7541739
    Abstract: Provided is a display apparatus capable of reducing external light reflection to reduce an amount of glare of the outside, in which a translucent protection member is provided to cover an observation surface side of a display member including an organic EL light-emitting portion, in order to protect the display member. The display apparatus includes the display member with an organic EL light-emitting portion having a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer provided between the pair of electrodes; and a casing for housing the display member, wherein a protection member is provided in the casing with a gap from the display member, and wherein a phase member and a polarizing member are formed on the protection member such that the polarizing member is located closer to a light extraction side than the phase member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ryuichiro Isobe, Hideo Mori, Osamu Yuuki, Tatsuyuki Tokunaga, Hidemasa Mizutani
  • Patent number: 7329981
    Abstract: An optical filter applied to a display apparatus, disposes on a substrate with transparency and has a maximum absorption wavelength ? in a wavelength range of 575±20 nm in connection with a wavelength range from 450 to 650 nm. The optical filter satisfies a relationship, 0.65?T1(?)/T2(?)?0.90 where T1 (?) is a transmittance at a central part of the substrate at the maximum absorption wavelength ?, and T2 (?) is a transmittance at a peripheral part of the substrate at the maximum absorption wavelength ?. The optical filter also satisfies a relationship, 0.90?(T1 (?1)/T2 (?1))/(T1 (?)/T2 (?))?1.05 with respect to transmittances wherein ?1 is each wavelength 450 nm, 530 nm and 630 nm, and ? is the maximum absorption wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Norihisa Nakao, Daiki Takahashi, Hiroyoshi Fukasawa, Hidemi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 7319289
    Abstract: A light emitting device has a light emitting element, and a phosphor layer of phosphor glass to generate fluorescence while being excited by light emitted from the light emitting element. The light emitting element emits ultraviolet light, and the phosphor glass generates visible fluorescence while being excited by the ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignees: Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd., Sumita Optical Glass, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Suehiro, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Hideaki Kato, Tohru Terajima, Kazuya Aida, Naruhito Sawanobori
  • Patent number: 7301264
    Abstract: Frusto-conical needle-shaped light guide paths are implanted on the surface of a display panel such that output light from display elements propagate through the needle-shaped light guide paths through total reflection, while external light repeats reflections multiple times on wedge-shaped surfaces of the light guide paths, and attenuates. A light absorbing film is coated on the surfaces of the needle-shaped light guide paths to increase a contrast ratio. Thus, a higher contrast can be accomplished in a bright room, and cross-talk between adjacent pixels is reduced. A reduction in contrast due to display light is also alleviated by employing longer implanted needle-shaped light guide paths, and bringing light incident surfaces of the needle-shaped light guide paths into close contact with the surface of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Michitaka Ohsawa
  • Patent number: 7297386
    Abstract: An antireflection structure (10) comprises a base (1), and a finely roughened antireflection part (2) formed in a surface of the base (1). The finely roughened antireflection part (2) includes a plurality of projections and depressions defined by the projections. The projections are distributed such that PMAX??MIN, where PMAX is the biggest one of distances between tips (2t) of the adjacent projections and ?MIN is the shortest one of wavelengths of visible light rays in a vacuum. The sectional area of each projection in a plane parallel to the surface of the base (1) increases continuously from the tip (2t) toward the bottom (2b) of the depression adjacent to the projection. The shape (2Mt) of a tip part (Mt) of each projection in a plane perpendicular to the surface of the base (1) is sharper than the shape (2Mb) of a bottom part (Mb) of each depression in the same plane vertical to the surface of the base (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Suzuki, Arimichi Ito, Nobuhito Toyama
  • Patent number: 7193779
    Abstract: Disclosed is a front filter in a plasma display panel (PDP), in which the front filter comprises an impact-absorbing layer attached to a front surface of the panel and composed of one of EVA, acrylic polymers, and PVC to be able to absorb external impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kyung Ku Kim, Hong Rae Cha, Young Sung Kim, Myeong Soo Chang, Byung Gil Ryu
  • Patent number: 7157844
    Abstract: In a projection cathode ray tube device in which a projection cathode ray tube and a projection lens assembly are coupled and held by a coupler, superior focus characteristics and high resolution are realized by eliminating the deviation between the center of the phosphor screen of the cathode ray tube and the center of the lens assembly. In the cathode ray tube, each of the outside and inside surfaces of a faceplate is formed as a spherical convex surface which is curved toward an electron gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Hitachi Displays, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Asano, Kenji Kato
  • Patent number: 7045936
    Abstract: An improved coupler with contrast ribs for use in a projection system. The coupler supports a projection lens in alignment with a projection optical signal generation device (e.g., a Cathode Ray Tube). The contrast ribs minimize contrast distortion that occurs in the coupler. The coupler defines a cooling chamber between said projection lens and said projection signal generating device and is filled with liquid in order to transport the optical signal between the projection optical signal generation device and projection lens. The contrast ribs change the angle of reflection of stray light rays generated by the projection optical signal generation device and direct a portion of those stray light rays to other contrast ribs. The ribs are preferably coated with a chemical composition that helps allow the ribs to absorb a portion of each ray incident on the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Electronic Devices (USA), Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Howland Baker
  • Patent number: 6992425
    Abstract: A high definition display apparatus having a wavelength selective absorption effect and an anti-static and anti-reflection effect is provided by thin films having a low resistance and a high refractive index. The high definition display apparatus has an anti-static and anti-reflection film composed of laminated oxide or metallic thin films, wherein at least three layers of oxide or metallic films having different reflectance from each other are laminated onto the front surf ace of the display apparatus, and the laminated films are composed such that an absorbing film containing coloring material is arranged under a high reflectance film as seen from the outer surface of the laminated films.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi-Device Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takao Ishikawa, Daigoro Kamoto, Tomoji Oishi, Ken Takahashi, Norikazu Uchiyama, Kiyoshi Miura, Masahiro Nishizawa, Toshio Tojo
  • Patent number: 6992431
    Abstract: An image display device having a vacuum envelope which has a light transmissible panel, a funnel and a neck, its inside held vacuum, a phosphor layer is formed on the inside surface of the light transmissible panel, an electron gun is disposed within the neck. An antistatic film which contains high-resistance fine particles having a specific resistivity of 106 to 109 ?·cm is formed on inside wall of the neck. The image display device is free from deterioration of display characteristics caused by a change of the track of electrons emitted by the application of voltage, a spark in a tube, or a leakage current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Takeo Ito, Tsuyoshi Oyaizu, Akira Mikami, Hitoshi Tabata
  • Patent number: 6958574
    Abstract: An image display device for providing antireflection and electromagnetic shielding effects is disclosed. The device has a faceplate, a coating panel made of glass, a plurality of coating layers laminated on one surface of the coating panel for performing antireflection and electromagnetic shielding functions, and an adhering layer for adhering the coating panel to the faceplate. The adhering layer may be an ultraviolet curable resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chong-In Chung, Chang-Seok Rho, Jong-Hwan Park, Tae-Il Yoon, Chang-Sub Lee
  • Patent number: 6947130
    Abstract: In evaluating whiteness of light from a light source or a luminaire, whiteness W is given by the following equation, W=?5.3C+100, wherein chroma C is determined by the CIE 1997 Interim Color Appearance Model (Simple Version).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Mukai, Toshio Mori, Yoshio Manabe, Yoshinori Ootaka, Masaaki Hama
  • Patent number: 6935914
    Abstract: A display panel includes a resin lens layer. The display panel consists of a front panel 10 and a back panel 12 which are hermetically sealed together. The display panel also includes a plurality of display cells and is filled with a gas. A visible-light transparent resin is coated over the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin layer is raise-molded with a molding tool 16 while being solidified. Through this molding process, a resin lens layer 14 with plural lenses is formed on the front surface of the front panel 10. The resin lens layer 14 formed on the front surface of the front panel 10 can improve the brightness of the display cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Atsushi Ito, Hironobu Arimoto
  • Patent number: 6924591
    Abstract: An implosion preventing band for a cathode ray tube includes a main band formed around an outer surface of a skirt of a face panel, and including a pair of long sides provided on opposite sides of the skirt in a direction corresponding to long sides of a screen, a pair of short sides provided on opposite sides of the skirt in a direction corresponding to short sides of a screen, and corners formed between the long sides and the short sides to interconnect the same; and degaussing coil supports formed raised from the main band on long and short sides of the main band, and each having formed one or more openings that allow passage in a direction of a width of the main band, a degaussing coil(s) being supported using the openings. A plurality of the openings is formed continuously in the degaussing coil supports in a circumferential direction of the main band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tok-Chin Woo, Hyung-Seok Oh, Woo-Seok Yang
  • Patent number: 6891322
    Abstract: A filter layer for a display and a method of preparing the filter layer, and a display including the filter layer, are provided. The filter layer for a display includes oxide particles and nano-sized metal particulates adhered to the surface of the oxide particles. A surface plasma resonance (SPR) phenomenon is triggered at the interface of the oxide/metal to selectively absorb light of at least one predetermined wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung SDI, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Hyuk Lee, Yoon-hyung Cho, Hae-Seung Lee, Dong-Sik Zang, Jung-Hwan Park
  • Patent number: 6888301
    Abstract: A gas-discharge display apparatus is provided that reduces influence of light emission of the discharging gas so as to enhance a color reproducible range and make color purity of red color close to the ideal value. The apparatus uses a gas containing at least one of neon and helium for generating the gas discharge and exciting three kinds of fluorescent materials having different light colors to emit light for color image display. In front of the gas discharge space, an optical filter is disposed, whose transmittance at the wavelength of 585 nanometers is smaller than both the transmittance at the wavelength of 450 nanometers and the transmittance at the wavelength of 620 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Fijitsu Limited
    Inventors: Fumihiro Namiki, Katsuya Irie
  • Patent number: 6875372
    Abstract: Cathodoluminescent phosphor powders and a method for making phosphor powders. The phosphor powders have a small particle size, narrow particle size distribution and are substantially spherical. The method of the invention advantageously permits the economic production of such powders. The invention also relates to improved devices, such as cathodoluminescent display devices, incorporating the phosphor powders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Cabot Corporation
    Inventors: Mark J. Hampden-Smith, Toivo T. Kodas, James Caruso, Quint H. Powell, Klaus Kunze, Daniel J. Skamser
  • Patent number: 6870307
    Abstract: A cooling structure of a projection tube having a following constitution is disclosed. A chamber in which a liquid coolant for cooling a panel surface is filled is formed on the panel surface of the projection tube and the chamber is defined by the panel surface, a lens which faces the panel surface in an opposed manner and a metal envelope which radiates heat. A first seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the panel surface, while a second seal member is disposed between the metal envelope and the lens. A holder for pressing the lens in the direction toward the metal envelope is disposed in the periphery of the lens. Pads which have surfaces approximately perpendicular to a tube axis of the projection tube are formed on a funnel portion of the projection tube. A sustainer for supporting the chamber is brought into contact with the pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsuyoshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 6861795
    Abstract: A funnel for a cathode ray tube has a relationship 0<?(z)<d in an arbitrary cross section P(z) parallel with a plane including an open end portion, where ?(z) is an angle (°) defined between a line and a major axis (LA) of the funnel, the line being connecting an outermost part D(z) on at least one of an outer surface and an inner surface of the body portion and a center axis (C) of the funnel, and d is an angle (°) defined between a diagonal axis (DA) of the funnel and the major axis (LA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2005
    Assignee: Nippon Electric Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kakigi
  • Patent number: 6856080
    Abstract: A vacuum tube having its anode/collector coated with carbonized resin plus pyrocarbon material to reduce out-gassing and secondary electron emission and the method of coating the anode/collector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Donald A. Shiffler, Jr., Michael D. Haworth
  • Patent number: 6856082
    Abstract: This is a cathode ray tube having a panel provided with a colored layer on an outer surface of a face portion, wherein an emission luminance ratio is 75% or higher in a lowest part relative to a highest part, and a diffuse reflectance ratio is 90% or higher in a lowest part relative to a highest part in an image display area of the face portion. Due to this configuration, a cathode ray tube with a natural appearance can be obtained in which a luminance difference or a contrast difference is not perceived in the entire area of the face portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsushi Suzuki, Masahiro Yamamura, Yasunori Miura
  • Patent number: 6806636
    Abstract: A CRT display including a display panel having a substantially flat outside surface, and an inside surface with a substantially fixed curvature includes a film coating with a non-uniform transmissivity. The film coating's transmissivity is varied, as a function of position, to compensate for variations in transmissivity exhibited by the display panel, thus resulting in substantially uniform image brightness across the surface of the CRT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheon Su Kang, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 6794809
    Abstract: A display unit has a face surface and a multi-layered antireflection antistatic film composed of three layers or more which are formed on the face surface. The multi-layered antireflection antistatic film has an absorption layer, a conductive layer, and a protect layer in the order from a face surface side. The absorption layer includes at least one kind of organic coloring matter, SiO2, and a silane coupling agent, and the silane coupling agent content thereof is seven times or less by weight the total solid content of SiO2 and the organic coloring matter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2004
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Hisashi Chigusa, Daiki Takahashi, Michiyo Abe, Katsuyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 6771017
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a film which is formed on an outer surface of a panel portion. The film is comprised of a first particles which become transparent due to the oxidation and a second particles which are chemically and physically stable and have the light absorbing ability and the conductivity. A number of the transparent first particles is gradually increased toward a peripheral portion from the center portion of the panel portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Nishizawa, Norikazu Uchiyama, Maki Taniguchi, Toshio Tojo, Tomoji Oishi
  • Patent number: RE41233
    Abstract: A cathode ray tube includes a panel having a substantially flat outer surface and an inner curved surface with a phosphor screen. The panel has a substantially rectangular effective screen portion with two long sides parallel to each other, two short sides parallel to each other and four rounded edges interconnecting each long side and the neighboring short side. The effective screen portion is structure such that a first line V1 interconnecting centers of the long sides, a second line H1 interconnecting centers of the short sides and a third line D1 interconnecting centers of the rounded edges opposite to each other meet at a point. The effective screen portion has a first thickness Tv at the centers of the long sides, a second thickness Th at the centers of the short sides, a third thickness Td at the centers of the edges and a fourth thickness Tc at the meeting point of the all three lines V1, H1 and D1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Houn Pyun, Wan Kim, Chan-Yong Kim