With Electrode Matrix Patents (Class 313/505)
  • Patent number: 9804466
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an array substrate includes: forming a first functional layer comprising a plurality of array substrate areas and connection areas between adjacent array substrate areas; forming a plurality of conductive portions within each of the array substrate areas, the plurality of conductive portions extending from a corresponding one of the array substrate areas to a corresponding one of the connection areas and terminals of the plurality of conductive portions being in connection with capacitor lines within the corresponding one of the connection areas such that two capacitor lines between two adjacent array substrate areas face each other and are formed into a first capacitor element; forming a plurality of second functional layers on the first functional layer formed with the plurality of conductive portions and the capacitor lines, for forming a plurality of array substrates; and performing a cutting process at the connection areas between adjacent array substrates and removing the capac
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd., Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Cong Liu, Yuchun Feng, Chunze Zhang, Zhaohui Hao, Lin Li
  • Patent number: 9779652
    Abstract: A sub-pixel is provided in a display area of an organic EL display device. A bank layer surrounds an outer periphery of the sub-pixel. A contact area is positioned in the display area and is adjacent to the sub-pixel through the bank layer. A pixel electrode is provided in the sub-pixel. A common electrode is disposed across the sub-pixel and the contact area. At least a part of an auxiliary conductive layer is positioned in the contact area. A contact hole is provided in the contact area and electrically connects the common electrode and the auxiliary conductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Kenta Kajiyama, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9773761
    Abstract: Provided are a nano-scale LED assembly and a method for manufacturing the same. First, a nano-scale LED device that is independently manufactured may be aligned and connected to two electrodes different from each other to solve a limitation in which a nano-scale LED device having a nano unit is coupled to two electrodes different from each other in a stand-up state. Also, since the LED device and the electrodes are disposed on the same plane, light extraction efficiency of the LED device may be improved. Furthermore, the number of nano-scale LED devices may be adjusted. Second, since the nano-scale LED device does not stand up to be three-dimensionally coupled to upper and lower electrodes, but lies to be coupled to two electrodes different from each other on the same plane, the light extraction efficiency may be very improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: PSI CO., LTD
    Inventor: Young Rag Do
  • Patent number: 9768410
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a flexible light-emitting device with high reliability in a simple way. Further, it is an object to provide an electronic device or a lighting device each mounted with the light-emitting device. A light-emitting device with high reliability can be obtained with the use of a light-emitting device having the following structure: an element portion including a light-emitting element is interposed between a substrate having flexibility and a light-transmitting property with respect to visible light and a metal substrate; and insulating layers provided over and under the element portion are in contact with each other in the outer periphery of the element portion to seal the element portion. Further, by mounting an electronic device or a lighting device with a light-emitting device having such a structure, an electronic device or a lighting device with high reliability can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Kaoru Hatano, Masahiro Katayama, Shingo Eguchi, Yoshiaki Oikawa, Ami Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9766505
    Abstract: A display panel is provided, which includes a sealant connected between two opposite substrates. A first curved segment of the sealant includes two first sealant nodes. A second curved segment of the sealant includes two second sealant nodes. The radius of the first curved segment is greater than that of the second curved segment. In addition, the distance between the two first sealant nodes is greater than the distance between the two second sealant nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Chao-Hsiang Wang, Shih-Hsiung Wu, Huan-Kuang Peng, Jui-Chu Lai
  • Patent number: 9735363
    Abstract: In a method for imprinting optoelectronic components with at least one bus bar, the bus bar following the shape of the optoelectronic component and allowing a homogeneous color impression on the rear face of the component, the bus bar is printed on a basic material before deposition of a photoactive layer. The basic material may comprise a substrate, or an electrically conductive transparent layer on a substrate. Subsequently, a conductive layer on the substrate is structured to form isolated regions, the photoactive layer is deposited and structured, and then a counter electrode is applied and structured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: HELIATEK GMBH
    Inventors: Ralph Wichtendahl, Andreas Borkert
  • Patent number: 9732916
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a substrate and a planar light source portion including a plurality of LED chips arrayed on the substrate. The planar light source portion faces an illumination space (space to be illuminated) by a predetermined opening area. The plurality of LED chips are arrayed on the substrate such that the mounting density with respect to the opening area is not less than 3/cm2, and accordingly, a planar light source is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Fujita, Toshio Watanabe, Yusaku Kawabata
  • Patent number: 9734762
    Abstract: In a pixel circuit (10), TFTs (12) to (16) are connected and driven such that a threshold voltage Vth of a TFT (11), which is a drive transistor, can be held in a threshold holding capacitor (19) having a capacitance value c1, voltages, including a data potential Vdata representing an image to be displayed, can be held in a data holding capacitor (18) having a capacitance value c2, and charges in the data holding capacitor (18) and the threshold holding capacitor (19) are redistributed at the time of light emission. As a result, a potential obtained by multiplying the data potential Vdata by c1/(c1+c2) is provided to a gate potential of the TFT (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Noritaka Kishi, Noboru Noguchi, Masanori Ohara, Shigetsugu Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 9723687
    Abstract: Method for fabricating an organic EL display panel having an EL region at every cross of first and second electrodes, including the steps of forming a plurality of first electrodes at regular intervals on a transparent substrate, forming an insulating later in regions other than the EL regions, forming second supplementary electrodes on the insulating layer, forming an electric insulating barrier between adjacent EL regions perpendicular to the first electrodes, forming an organic EL layer in each of the EL regions with a shadow mask, depositing an electrode material on an entire surface inclusive of the organic EL layer, to form a plurality of second electrodes, and forming a protection film on an entire surface inclusive of the second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventor: Chang Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 9711761
    Abstract: The present invention provides an organic EL panel and a manufacturing method of the organic EL layer which can slow the reduction in the light emission lifetime of an organic layer and allow a short-circuit defect to be repaired. Organic EL elements include: an organic EL element including a short-circuit portion, and an altered portion formed to be highly resistive by irradiating a cathode with a laser beam; and an organic EL element which does not include the short-circuit portion. In the organic EL element, an organic EL layer emits light when a voltage higher than or equal to a first voltage is applied. In the organic EL element, the organic EL layer emits light when a voltage higher than equal to a second voltage that is higher than the first voltage is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventors: Tomomi Hiraoka, Yasuo Segawa
  • Patent number: 9711696
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a body section; a substrate provided in the body section; a wiring pattern provided on a surface of the substrate and including wiring pads; and light emitting elements provided on the wiring pattern and including electrodes in the vicinity of a circumferential edge of a surface opposite to a side on which the wiring pattern is provided. The lighting device also includes wirings that respectively connect the wiring pads and a plurality of electrodes; a surrounding wall member provided to surround the light emitting elements and having an annular shape; and a sealing section provided to cover the inside of the surrounding wall member. At least a part of the light emitting elements is connected in series. The electrodes are respectively positioned on or inside a circumference passing through centers of the light emitting elements which are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromitsu Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 9711573
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode that are disposed spaced apart adjacent to each other; and a pixel-defining layer disposed on the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, the pixel-defining layer covering a part of the first pixel electrode and a part of the second pixel electrode except a center portion of the first pixel electrode, a center portion of the second pixel electrode, a first edge of the first pixel electrode in a direction to the second pixel electrode, and a second edge of the second pixel electrode in a direction to the first pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungwoo Jung, Sangshin Lee
  • Patent number: 9711610
    Abstract: The reliability of a semiconductor device is increased by suppression of a variation in electric characteristics of a transistor as much as possible. As a cause of a variation in electric characteristics of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, the concentration of hydrogen in the oxide semiconductor, the density of oxygen vacancies in the oxide semiconductor, or the like can be given. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed using a conductive material which is easily bonded to oxygen. A channel formation region is formed using an oxide layer formed by a sputtering method or the like under an atmosphere containing oxygen. Thus, the concentration of hydrogen in a stack, in particular, the concentration of hydrogen in a channel formation region can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunpei Yamazaki, Hideomi Suzawa, Hiroshi Fujiki, Hiromichi Godo, Yasumasa Yamane
  • Patent number: 9655201
    Abstract: A pixel arrangement structure for an organic light-emitting diode display panel includes a plurality of first subpixel rows and a plurality of second subpixel rows alternating with the first subpixel rows. Each first subpixel row includes first subpixels and second subpixels alternating with the first subpixels. Each second subpixel row includes alternately disposed first, second, and third subpixels. The number of the third subpixels in each second subpixel row is two times the number of the first or second subpixels in the second subpixel row. The subpixels of the same type in each of the first and second subpixel rows are not adjacent to each other. RGB pixels are formed by combinations of the subpixels in the first subpixel rows and the subpixels in the second subpixels. The color mixing effect is improved, and the resolution is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Ltd.
    Inventor: Juo-Sheng Chu
  • Patent number: 9646959
    Abstract: A bezel of a display includes source lines with a same length, gate in panel (GIP) lines, and at least two customized integrated circuit (IC) chips arranged along a straight line in a lateral direction. Each of the customized IC chips is coupled to at least one of the source lines or the GIP lines. Circuit layouts on the customized IC chips are, together, equivalent to a circuit layout on a standard IC chip. A sum of widths of the customized IC chips in the lateral direction is greater than a width of the standard IC chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Xiaomi Inc.
    Inventors: Anyu Liu, Guosheng Li, Zhengdong Xiao
  • Patent number: 9647014
    Abstract: A complementary thin film transistor driving back plate and a preparing method thereof, and a display device are disclosed. The preparing method comprises: forming a lower electrode (102) on a base substrate (101); sequentially disposing a continuously grown dielectric layer (103), a semiconductor layer (104), and a diffusion protection layer (105); sequentially forming a no-photoresist region (107), an N-type thin film transistor preparation region (108), and a P-type thin film transistor preparation region (109); removing a photoresist layer (114) of the N-type thin film transistor preparation region (108); removing a diffusion protection layer (105) of the N-type thin film transistor preparation region (105); removing a photoresist layer (114) of the P-type thin film transistor preparation region (109); performing an oxidation treatment to the base substrate (101); disposing a passivation layer (111) on the base substrate (101); and forming an upper electrode (113) on the passivation layer (111).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaodi Liu, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 9627642
    Abstract: An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display includes: a substrate divided into a pixel area, and a peripheral area enclosing the pixel area; an OLED in the pixel area and including a first electrode, an organic emission layer and a second electrode; a common voltage line in the peripheral area and transmitting a common voltage to the second electrode; and a reaction blocking part overlapping the common voltage line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sang-Mok Hong, Gun-Tae Park, Ho-In Lee
  • Patent number: 9627586
    Abstract: An electroluminescent element includes a first transparent electrode, a second transparent electrode, a light emitting layer sandwiched between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode, a first transparent member formed on a surface of the first transparent electrode opposite to the light emitting layer, and a second transparent member formed on a surface of the second transparent electrode opposite to the light emitting layer, wherein refractive indices of the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode are selected such that as seen from the light emitting layer, a reflectance of an interface between the light emitting layer and the first transparent electrode becomes higher than a reflectance of an interface between the light emitting layer and the second transparent electrode, and wherein a refractive index of the first transparent member is set to be higher than a refractive index of the second transparent member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventors: Kou Osawa, Mitsuru Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9607970
    Abstract: The light-emitting device of the present invention includes LED chips provided on a ceramic substrate and a sealing material in which the LED chips are embedded. The sealing material contains a fluorescent substance and divided into a first fluorescent-substance-containing resin layer and a second fluorescent-substance-containing resin layer by a first resin ring and a second resin ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Makoto Agatani, Toshio Hata, Toyonori Uemura
  • Patent number: 9601554
    Abstract: A transparent display device includes a first substrate including a pixel region and a light amount controlling region. An organic light emitting display is positioned in the pixel region and includes an anode electrode, a pixel defined layer, an organic light emitting layer positioned on the anode electrode and in an opening part of the pixel defined layer, and a cathode electrode positioned on the organic light emitting layer. A liquid crystal display is positioned in the light amount controlling region and includes a pixel electrode, a roof layer facing the pixel electrode, and a liquid crystal layer having a plurality of microcavities between the pixel electrode and the roof layer. The microcavities include liquid crystal molecules. A second substrate seals the organic light emitting display and the liquid crystal display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yong-Han Park, Hye Eun Park
  • Patent number: 9548453
    Abstract: A method for producing a multiple-surface imposition vapor deposition mask enhances definition and reduces weight even when a size is increased. Each of multiple masks in an open space in a frame is configured by a metal mask having a slit, and a resin mask that is positioned on a front surface of the metal mask and has openings corresponding to a pattern to be produced by vapor deposition arranged by lengthwise and crosswise in a plurality of rows. In formation of the plurality of masks, after each of the metal masks and a resin film material for producing the resin mask are attached to the frame, the resin film material is processed, and the openings corresponding to the pattern to be produced by vapor deposition are formed in a plurality of rows lengthwise and crosswise, whereby the multiple-surface imposition vapor deposition mask of the above described configuration is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hirobe, Yutaka Matsumoto, Masato Ushikusa, Toshihiko Takeda, Katsunari Obata, Hiroyuki Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9543334
    Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a substrate including a non-display region containing a thin film transistor, which includes a semiconductor layer; a first insulating layer; a first metal layer; a second insulating layer; a first and second via hole series disposed adjacent to the respective opposite sides of the first metal layer. The first via hole series includes a plurality of first via holes, and the second via hole series includes a plurality of second via holes. A second metal layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The minimum distance between an edge of the first portion and an edge of the first metal layer is a first distance, and the minimum distance between an edge of the second portion and another edge of the first metal layer is a second distance, and the second distance is greater than the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Wen Yen, Hsing-Yi Liang, Te-Yu Lee
  • Patent number: 9543531
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of double-complex salts in electronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices, and oligomers formed from charged metal complexes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Merck Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Yersin, Uwe Monkowius, Tobias Fischer
  • Patent number: 9530829
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR ENERGY LABORATORY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 9478742
    Abstract: Light emitted within an organic EL device is effectively utilized, and a pixel is provided for improving the extraction efficiency of the light. Light extraction is efficiency is improved without increasing a current by effectively utilizing guided wave light which is a cause of the loss of light emitted by an organic EL device. In order to achieve this, a stepped portion is arrange in an insulating layer provided over a lower layer of a first electrode including a light reflecting surface, and a peripheral area of the first electrode is formed so as to contact the stepped portion. The reflecting surface is formed curved towards a second electrode side in the peripheral area of the first electrode from the stepped portion, light guided through the organic EL layer is reflected by the reflecting surface and emitted from the second electrode side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
    Inventors: Jun Takagi, Toshihiro Sato
  • Patent number: 9460650
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display includes first sub-pixels of a first color and second sub-pixels of a second color. Pairs of the first sub-pixels are consecutively arranged in different rows, and pairs of the second sub-pixels are consecutively arranged in different rows. The pairs of first sub-pixels and the pairs of second sub-pixels arranged alternately in a first column, and third sub-pixels are in a second column adjacent to the first column. When one sub-pixel is defective, a control circuit provides current another sub-pixel of the same color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sang-Min Hong
  • Patent number: 9455304
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels with sets of pixels arranged in rows and columns. Each set of pixels includes a red pixel, a green pixel, a blue pixel, and a white pixel. The red pixels each have a white diode and a red color filter element to impart a red color to white light from that white diode. The green pixels each have a white diode and a green color filter element to impart a green color to white light from that white diode. The white pixels each have an unfiltered white diode. The blue pixels each have an unfiltered blue diode. The unfiltered white and blue diodes do not have color filters and emit white and blue light for the white and blue pixels, respectively. The white and blue diodes may be tandem diodes having two or more emissive layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jungmin Lee, Donghee Nam
  • Patent number: 9433058
    Abstract: A display panel is disclosed, having a display region and a non-display region out of the display region, wherein the display region comprises a central pixel region and a border pixel region disposed between the central pixel region and the non-display region, the display panel comprising: a first substrate; a second substrate; a display medium layer; a plurality of central pixel units located at the central pixel region and having a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the second substrate; and a plurality of border pixel units located at the border pixel region and having a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the second substrate; wherein outmost edges of a part of the adjacent border pixel units form a ladder-like shape, and a light output area of at least one of the border pixel units is smaller than that of at least one of the central pixel units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Min Wu, Chien-Feng Shih, Sheng-Feng Huang, Ming-Jhih Chen
  • Patent number: 9401321
    Abstract: A display device includes, on a substrate, light emitting elements each formed by sequentially stacking a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a light emission layer, and a second electrode layer and arranged in first and second directions which cross each other, a drive circuit including drive elements that drive light emitting elements, and a wiring extending in the first direction, and an insulating layer disposed in a gap region sandwiched by the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction and having a recess or a projection. The wiring is disposed in an overlap region overlapping with the recess or the projection in the insulating layer in a thickness direction, in the gap region, and the second electrode layers in the light emitting elements neighboring in the second direction are separated from each other by the recess or the projection in the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Sagawa
  • Patent number: 9397265
    Abstract: In a method for forming a phosphor-converted LED, an array of vertical LEDs is printed over a conductive surface of a substrate such that a bottom electrode of the LEDs ohmically contacts the conductive surface. A dielectric layer then formed over the conductive surface. An electrically conductive phosphor layer is deposited over the dielectric layer and the LEDs to ohmically contact the top surface of the LEDs and connect the LEDs in parallel. The conductive phosphor layer is formed by phosphor particles intermixed with a transparent conductor material. One or more metal contacts over the conductive phosphor layer conduct current through the conductive phosphor layer and the LEDs to illuminate the LEDs. A portion of light generated by the LED leaks through the conductive phosphor layer, and the combination of the LED light and phosphor light creates a composite light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nthdegree Technologies Worldwide Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Steven Oraw, Reuben Rettke
  • Patent number: 9397312
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the design and fabrication of OLEDs, including high-performance large-area OLEDs, are provided. Variously described fabrication processes may be used to deposit and pattern bus lines with a smooth profile and a gradual sidewall transition. Such smooth profiles may, for example, reduce the probability of electrical shorting at the bus lines. Accordingly, in certain circumstances, an insulating layer may no longer be considered essential, and may be optionally avoided altogether. In cases where an insulating layer is not used, further enhancements in the emissive area and shelf life of the device may be achieved as well. According to aspects of the invention, bus lines such as those described herein may be deposited, and patterned, using vapor deposition such as vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) through a shadow mask, and may avoid multiple photolithography steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Levermore, Huiqing Pang, Emory Krall, Rajan Kamala, Ruiqing Ma, Paul E. Burrows
  • Patent number: 9379357
    Abstract: The present application discloses an OLED with an improved structure, comprising a reflective anode layer, a transparent cathode layer, an organic light-emitting layer sandwiched between the anode layer and the cathode layer, and a side reflective layer surrounding the organic light-emitting layer and forming a light exiting area together with the anode layer, wherein the light emitted from the light-emitting layer is reflected by both of the anode layer and the side reflective layer, and then leaves from the light exiting area. According to the present disclosure, the lateral light is reflected by the side reflective layer arranged around the organic light-emitting layer, such that the luminescent efficiency of the OLED with said improved structure can be significantly increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: EverDisplay Optronics (Shanghai) Limited
    Inventors: Chihhung Liu, Chenghsien Wang, Chunchieh Huang
  • Patent number: 9368748
    Abstract: For a display device and manufacturing method for the display device, the method comprises steps of: disposing a plurality of recesses on the cover body; coating glass frit in the recesses; sintering the glass frit for forming sintered blocks; disposing display auxiliary members on the cover body having the sintered blocks formed thereon; and irradiating the sintered blocks by laser to combine the cover and the display substrate with the sintered blocks. The present invention can prevent the display auxiliary members of the cover from being damaged in the packaging process of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tai-pi Wu
  • Patent number: 9356258
    Abstract: Electronic devices that use desiccants for protection from moisture. The electronic devices comprise a substrate and an organic element disposed over the top surface of the substrate. The substrate has one or more voids which may store desiccants. The voids may penetrate partially or completely through the thickness of the substrate. An environmental barrier is disposed over the organic element and the voids. Also provided are methods for making electronic devices that use desiccants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Ruiqing Ma, Jeffrey A. Silvernail
  • Patent number: 9341318
    Abstract: An LED bulb (100) including a light source device (105) provided on a mounting plate (102) and covered by a globe (104) in a shape of a spherical shell is configured such that the light source device (105) includes: a reflecting member (108) in a truncated cone shape; and a plurality of LED chips (15) provided on a top surface of the substrate (11), at least a side face of the reflecting member (108) has a light reflecting function, and the light source device (105) is provided on the mounting plate (102) in such a way that a bottom surface of the substrate (11) faces the mounting plate (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshio Hata, Makoto Agatani, Toyonori Uemura
  • Patent number: 9337249
    Abstract: An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of power lines disposed on the substrate, and a reflection layer disposed on the power lines, where the reflection layer is electrically connected with the power lines. The display panel also includes an anode disposed on the reflection layer, an optical modulation layer disposed between the reflection layer and the anode, a cathode disposed on the anode, and an organic emitting device layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, where the reflection layer is insulated from the anode, and the OLED display panel is configured to transmit light from a side of the reflection layer away from the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignees: Shanghai Tianma AM-OLED Co., Ltd., Tianma Micro-Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guoli Wang, Dayong Huang, Bengang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9281492
    Abstract: According to the present invention, an electro-optic device comprises: a substrate which is split into a light emitting unit and a non-light emitting unit, wherein said light emitting unit is divided into a plurality of driving regions; an electrode pad which is formed in the non-light emitting unit of the substrate; and an electrode unit which comprises a plurality of supplementary electrodes each of which has one end connected to the electrode pad and has the other end connected to the centers of each of the plurality of driving regions, and transparent electrodes formed on the upper sides of the plurality of supplementary electrodes in the light emitting unit, wherein the area of each of the plurality of driving regions is set to an area in which no voltage drop occurs, and the plurality of supplementary electrodes are manufactured in the same length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Jusung Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chon Kyu Min, Hyung Il Jeon
  • Patent number: 9269906
    Abstract: It is an object to provide a light-emitting element having long lifetime. A light-emitting element is provided, in which a light-emitting layer, a first layer, and a second layer are provided between a first electrode and a second electrode; the first layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the first electrode; the second layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the second electrode; the first layer is a layer for controlling the hole transport; the second layer is a layer for controlling the electron transport; and light emission is obtained from the light-emitting layer by applying voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode such that the potential of the first electrode is higher than that of the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsunenori Suzuki, Satoko Shitagaki, Satoshi Seo
  • Patent number: 9269928
    Abstract: An organic EL light emitting device includes a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode film formed on the substrate, a positive electrode contact portion in contact with a part of the transparent electrode film and electrically connected therewith, an insulating layer formed on the transparent electrode film such that the an insulating layer covers a portion excluding a light emitting part, an organic light emitting layer formed on the transparent electrode film and on the insulating layer, a negative electrode film formed on the organic light emitting layer, a negative electrode contact portion in contact with at least a part of the negative electrode film and electrically connected therewith, and a protective layer for separating and electrically insulating the positive electrode contact portion and the transparent electrode film from the negative electrode contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: NEC LIGHTING, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshikazu Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 9214500
    Abstract: A pixel structure of an electroluminescent display panel includes display pixel units. Each display pixel unit is composed of one first sub-pixel, one second sub-pixel, and one third sub-pixel. Each first sub-pixel is disposed adjacent to another first sub-pixel along a column direction to form a first pixel unit with a first frame. Each second sub-pixel is disposed adjacent to another second sub-pixel along the column direction to form a second pixel unit with a second frame. Each third sub-pixel is disposed adjacent to another third sub-pixel along the column direction to form a third pixel unit with a third frame. Each first, second, and third pixel units respectively have an identical first length along the column direction. Each first pixel unit and one adjacent first pixel unit disposed in a different row are shifted relatively along the row direction by the first length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: AU Optronics Corp.
    Inventors: Ching-Yan Chao, Chin-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 9190456
    Abstract: An arrangement for a high resolution active matrix display includes organic emissive layers of distinct colors each deposited across continuous regions so as to include more than one pixel emissive region. Color filters are situated to partially block light from at least some of the emissive regions such that primary additive colors are transmitted from distinct subsets of pixels. The emissive layers may be deposited in alternating parallel stripes along rows or columns of the display, or may be oriented perpendicularly with respect to one another such that the emissive layers overlap in the emissive regions of at least some pixels. In some examples, red, green, and blue of pixels are arranged in regular patterns across the display and with the emissive regions for the blue pixels forming a relatively larger area of the display than either the red or green pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ignis Innovation Inc.
    Inventor: Gholamreza Chaji
  • Patent number: 9178174
    Abstract: A display device includes light emitting elements that are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, in which the light emitting elements include a drive circuit which is provided on a substrate, a first insulating layer which covers the drive circuit and the substrate, a light emitting portion in which a first electrode, an organic layer having a light emitting layer, and a second electrode are laminated, and a second insulating layer which covers the first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masanao Uesugi, Jiro Yamada, Mitsuo Morooka, Yasunobu Hiromasu
  • Patent number: 9171893
    Abstract: A mother substrate for an organic light-emitting display device includes a base substrate, a plurality of display areas arranged in an array on the base substrate, the array having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns that are perpendicular to the plurality of rows. The mother substrate further includes a plurality of first dummy patterns formed between the plurality of rows of display areas, and a plurality of second dummy patterns formed between the plurality of columns of display areas. The plurality of first dummy patterns are spaced apart from each other by a plurality of cut portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Kyung Go, So-Ra Kwon
  • Patent number: 9147713
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a technique to manufacture a display device with high image quality and high reliability at low cost with high yield. The invention has spacers over a pixel electrode layer in a pixel region and over an insulating layer functioning as a partition which covers the periphery of the pixel electrode layer. When forming a light emitting material over a pixel electrode layer, a mask for selective formation is supported by the spacers, thereby preventing the mask from contacting the pixel electrode layer due to a twist and deflection thereof. Accordingly, such damage as a crack by the mask does not occur in the pixel electrode layer. Thus, the pixel electrode layer does not have a defect in shapes, thereby a display device which performs a high resolution display with high reliability can be manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shunpei Yamazaki, I
  • Patent number: 9119306
    Abstract: A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery, a driving chip disposed out of the active display area for driving the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the active display area. The width of at least one wire at a portion adjacent to the driving chip is smaller than the width of the at least one wire at the other portion adjacent to the active display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Chiu, Wei-Chung Lu
  • Patent number: 9111891
    Abstract: EL display device with long lifetime for electrons being injected into a light-emission layer at a high rate, and method of manufacturing the EL display device are provided. The EL display device includes: base; pixel electrode on the base; auxiliary wiring on the base, the auxiliary wiring not overlapping with the pixel electrode; light-emission layer above the pixel electrode; charge transport layer above the auxiliary wiring and the pixel electrode, the charge transport layer continuously extending over the auxiliary wiring and the pixel electrode; and common electrode on the charge transport layer, the common electrode continuously extending over the auxiliary wiring and connected with the auxiliary wiring. The common electrode includes at least one metal selected from a group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline-earth metals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: JOLED INC.
    Inventor: Takashi Isobe
  • Patent number: 9105875
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting display apparatus including a substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a first pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and including a reflecting layer; a pixel defining layer disposed around one end of the first pixel electrode and extending away from the first pixel electrode; a first intermediate layer disposed on the first pixel electrode and including an organic emission layer; an opposite electrode disposed on the first intermediate layer and the pixel defining layer and including a reflecting layer; and a first refractive layer disposed between the insulating layer and the pixel defining layer and having a refractivity greater than that of the insulating layer and the pixel defining layer. A first end of the first refractive layer is disposed to contact the first intermediate layer, and a second end of the refractive layer is disposed to face a portion of the opposite electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gee-Bum Kim, Min-Woo Kim, Hae-Yun Choi
  • Patent number: 9099039
    Abstract: An organic electro luminescence display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels arranged at intersections of m columns and n rows, a data driver unit configured to generate data signals and to provide the data signals to the pixels, and a gate driver unit configured to generate a first luminescence control signal, a second luminescence control signal, and scan signals, wherein the scan signals are sequentially provided to the pixels by a row unit, the first luminescence control signal is provided to the pixels via the left-most side of the pixels of the display panel, and the second luminescence control signal is provided to the pixels via the right-most side of the pixels of the display panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Min Cheol Kim
  • Patent number: 9095059
    Abstract: A display panel includes a periphery area, an active display area adjacent to the periphery, a driving chip disposed out of the active display area for driving the active display area, and a plurality of wires electrically connecting the driving chip and the active display area. The width of at least one wire at a portion adjacent to the driving chip is smaller than the width of the at least one wire at the other portion adjacent to the active display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: INNOLUX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun-Chih Chiu, Wei-Chung Lu
  • Patent number: 9088001
    Abstract: Discussed are an organic light emitting display and a method for fabricating the same to improve color purity and efficiency. The organic light emitting display includes a substrate having first to third sub-pixels, first and second electrodes formed on the substrate, the first and second electrodes facing each other, a red light emitting layer formed in the first sub-pixel between the first and second electrodes, a green light emitting layer formed in the second sub-pixel between the first and second electrodes, and a blue common light emitting layer formed in the first to third sub-pixels between the first and second electrodes, wherein a thin film layer formed between the first electrode and the blue common light emitting layer and contacting the blue common light emitting layer includes a blue host.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young-Ju Kim, Jeong-Kyun Shin, Hee-Jin Kim