Electric Or Magnetic Imagery, E.g., Xerography, Electrography, Magnetography, Etc., Process, Composition, Or Product Patents (Class 430/31)
  • Patent number: 11839137
    Abstract: A display apparatus including a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area spaced apart from the first non-folding area, and a folding area between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, a flexible display panel, a metal plate supporting the flexible display panel and including a recess in the folding area, the metal plate having a first thickness in the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, and a second thickness less than the first thickness in the folding area, a resin portion disposed in the recess, and a first adhesive layer disposed between the flexible display panel and the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Su Yee
  • Patent number: 10969686
    Abstract: The present application relates to a film mask comprising: a transparent substrate; a darkened light-shielding pattern layer provided on the transparent substrate; and groove portions provided in a region where the darkened light-shielding pattern layer is not provided, a method for manufacturing the same, a method for forming a pattern by using the same, and a pattern manufactured by using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: LG CHEM, LTD.
    Inventors: Ji Young Hwang, Han Min Seo, Sangcholl Han, Seung Heon Lee, Dong Hyun Oh, Dae Han Seo, Nam Seok Bae, Min Soo Song
  • Patent number: 10636565
    Abstract: A signal transmitting/receiving device faces a conductor and communicates with another transmitting/receiving device. A signal transmitting/receiving device communicating with a counterpart device in an electromagnetic induction scheme via an adjacent conductive object, for example, comprises: a first layer which is formed of a conductive material, and comprises at least one opening facing the object; a second layer which is adjacent to the first layer on the side opposite the object, and is formed of a conductive material; and a third layer which is arranged between the first layer and the second layer, and exchanges an electromagnetic field comprising a signal with the object through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
    Inventors: Franklin Don Bien, Saikiran Oruganti, Sang Hyun Heo, Hyung Gun Ma, Seok Tae Seo
  • Patent number: 10345498
    Abstract: Provided is an infrared cut filter including: an infrared absorbing layer of a transparent resin containing an infrared absorber; and a selected wavelength cut layer stacked on the infrared absorbing layer, wherein the following requirements are satisfied. (i) In a spectral transmittance curve for an incident angle of 0°, an average transmittance in a 450-600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in a 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D0 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04. D0 (%/nm)=(Tmax·0?Tmin·0)/(?(Tmax·0)??(Tmin·0)) (ii) wherein a spectrum transmittance curve for an incident angle of 30°, an average transmittance in the 450 to 600 nm range is 80% or more, a transmittance in the 700-1200 nm range is 2.0% or less, and D30 represented by the following expression is less than 0.04.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: AGC Inc.
    Inventors: Kyoko Yamamoto, Takaaki Murakami, Mitsuyuki Tatemura, Hiroshi Kumai
  • Patent number: 9400441
    Abstract: Embodiments pertain to a method of creating an electrostatic latent image through use of an electrostatic latent image generating device comprising a single exposing device for selectively exposing a surface of the electrostatic imaging member to light, and a single electrostatic charging device for charging the surface of the electrostatic imaging member, wherein the exposing device is located before the electrostatic charging device such that the exposing the surface of the electrostatic imaging member to light precedes the charging the surface of the electrostatic imaging member and wherein charge is not accepted by the exposed surface of the electrostatic imaging member and the charge is accepted by the unexposed surface of the electrostatic imaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory McGuire, Yu Liu, Richard A. Klenkler
  • Patent number: 9181382
    Abstract: The invention provides a thermoplastic polyurethane with at least one plasticizer, where at least one first plasticizer (i) is based on glycerol, and at least one hydroxy group of the glycerol has been esterified with a monocarboxylic acid (ii) which comprises 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 carbon atoms, more preferably 2, 3, or 4 carbon atoms, and very particularly preferably 2 carbon atoms. The invention further comprises a process for producing the thermoplastic polyurethane with the plasticizer (i), a process for coating products with said thermoplastic polyurethane, the use of the thermoplastic polyurethane, and also the use of plasticizers based on glycerol for thermoplastic polyurethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Frank Prissok, Jörn Duwenhorst, Andre Kamm
  • Patent number: 9018776
    Abstract: A hard mask composition includes a solvent and an aromatic ring-containing compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Cheil Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Jee-Yun Song, Min-Soo Kim, Hwan-Sung Cheon, Seung-Bae Oh, Yoo-Jeong Choi
  • Patent number: 9001406
    Abstract: A reflective color display pixel has a top surface for receiving ambient light, and a plurality of sub-pixels including a first sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel has a broadband mirror and a luminescent layer disposed over the broadband mirror. The luminescent layer contains a luminescent material for absorbing a portion of the ambient light and emitting light of a first color, and a light-absorbing material for absorbing light of wavelengths longer than a wavelength of the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Xia Sheng, Gary Gibson, Dick Henze, Zhang-Lin Zhou
  • Patent number: 8995039
    Abstract: A window glazing (10) suitable for use in automotive applications wherein a switchable film (18) is protected from UV exposure and over-temperature exposure by a coating (14) that reflects IR and UV light in combination with an interlayer (16) that absorbs UV light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Pittsburgh Glass Works, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce A. Bartug, Peter T. Dishart, Steven M. Parsons
  • Patent number: 8988762
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a lower substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes on the lower substrate, having a lower organic layer on the pixel electrodes and the lower substrate, and having partition walls formed on the lower organic layer to surround the pixel electrodes, the pixel electrodes and partition walls defining a plurality of sub-pixels; an upper substrate bonded with the lower substrate, the upper substrate having a common electrode formed thereon with an upper organic layer on the common electrode; and electrophoretic dispersion liquid comprising a plurality of charged particles colored to display colors, the electrophoretic dispersion liquid disposed in the plurality of the sub-pixels defined by the pixel electrodes and the partition walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Il Shin, Yong In Park, Seung Han Paek, Choon Ho Park
  • Patent number: 8896908
    Abstract: An electrophoretic device includes: in an insulating liquid, a plurality of electrophoretic particles; and a porous layer formed of a fibrous structure, the fibrous structure including a plurality of non-migrating particles. The fibrous structure is configured of superposed fibers extending in an identical direction or different directions, and includes a cross-linking section in which the fibers are linked to each other in part or all of contact points between the fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Aya Shuto, Hidehiko Takanashi, Ken Kobayashi, Yuriko Kaino
  • Patent number: 8861069
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophoretic display (EPD) device and fabrication method thereof that has a simplified fabrication process and reduced fabrication costs. In the EPD device, a partition wall is formed directly on a first substrate having a pixel electrode and extended up a lateral surface of the partition wall to prevent dead areas in the pixel region, provide increased aperture ratio, and enhanced image quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yu-Sok Lim, Oh-Nam Kwon, Seung-Han Paek, Choon-Ho Park
  • Patent number: 8810896
    Abstract: A rewritable recording medium including: a base material; and an image recording layer enclosed by the base material, wherein the image recording layer contains: electrophoretic particles, magnetophoretic particles, or both of the electrophoretic particles and the magnetophoretic particles; a dispersion medium; and a thermoreversible gelling agent, and wherein the dispersion medium is in contact with the base material, and wherein image recording and image erasing can be repeatedly performed on the rewritable recording medium by an external image recording device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nozomu Tamoto
  • Patent number: 8758965
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method of manufacturing a color filter adsorbing toner nano-particles by using electrostatic force. In the apparatus for manufacturing the color filter, a laser driver generates at least one laser control signal according to electrification data, at least one laser device forming a laser irradiation unit which irradiates a laser for a predetermined time according to the at least one laser control signal. According to the irradiated laser, electrostatic latent images are formed in positions of color filter cells having a predetermined resolution standard requirements in a glass substrate, and toner nano-particles are electrostatically adsorbed to the formed electrostatic latent images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tae Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 8693087
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a light emitting device utilizing charged quantum dots is described. In one embodiment, charged quantum dots are suspended in a liquid between an excitation plate and a cover plate. The excitation plate carries short-wave excitation light. Charged quantum dots near the surface of the excitation plate may emit light in response to an evanescent field generated by the short-wave excitation light undergoing total internal reflection within the excitation plate. The excitation plate and the cover plate may be coated with one or more transparent electrodes. The movement of charged quantum dots within the liquid may be controlled by applying one or more bias voltages to the one or more transparent electrodes. Light emission from a particular region near the surface of the excitation plate may be controlled by moving charged quantum dots into or out of the particular region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Nowatzyk, Rod Fleck
  • Patent number: 8681414
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device includes a lower substrate having a plurality of pixel electrodes formed on the lower substrate and having partition walls formed on the lower substrate surrounding the pixel electrodes, the pixel electrodes and partition walls defining a plurality of sub-pixels; an upper substrate bonded with the lower substrate, the upper substrate having a common electrode formed thereon with an encapsulation layer formed on an area of the common electrode corresponding to the plurality of the sub-pixels; an electrophoretic dispersion liquid comprising a plurality of charged particles colored to display predetermined colors, the electrophoretic dispersion liquid injected into the plurality of the sub-pixels defined by the pixel electrodes and the partition walls; and an interlayer formed between the encapsulation layer and the electrophoretic dispersion liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Il Shin, Choon Ho Park
  • Patent number: 8570636
    Abstract: A display element is described. The display element includes: a network; a continuous phase; and a discontinuous mobile phase, which is capable of responding to an externally applied electric field such that under influence of the externally applied electric field, without effecting bulk movement of the continuous phase, the mobile phase displaces from one location to another location through or within the network. A process of manufacturing a display cell is also described. The process includes: obtaining a pair of electrodes; placing a network between the electrodes; assembling the electrodes and the network to form a sub-assembly; and injecting into the subassembly a discontinuous phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Zikon Inc.
    Inventors: Mateusz Bryning, Zbigniew Bryning, Remy Cromer
  • Patent number: 8547324
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display sheet comprising a display layer, a first electrode, and second electrodes. The display layer has a plurality of reservoir portions filled with a dispersion liquid containing particles. Each of the plurality of reservoir portions has predetermined positions. When an electric field having a direction is generated by applying a voltage to between the first electrode and the second electrodes, the particles are locally gathered to the predetermined positions of each of the plurality of reservoir portions so as to make rows of the particles along the direction of the electric field in the dispersion liquid. The electrophoretic display sheet is capable of exhibiting both superior responsiveness (responsibility) and superior color display performance with high contrast in changing a display color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Harunobu Komatsu, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Akira Matsumoto, Mitsuo Kushino, Tomoyuki Kuwamoto, Teruki Matsushita
  • Patent number: 8542430
    Abstract: An electrophoretic device includes: an electrophoretic particle; a porous layer formed of a fibrous structure containing a non-electrophoretic particle having optical reflection characteristics different from those of the electrophoretic particle; and a dividing wall adjacent to the porous layer. The electrophoretic particle, the porous layer, and the dividing wall are in an insulating liquid. Volume resistivity of the fibrous structure is larger than volume resistivity of the insulating liquid, and volume resistivity of the dividing wall is larger than the volume resistivity of the insulating liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuhito Yasui, Hidehiko Takanashi, Ken Kobayashi, Ryo Kasegawa, Aya Shuto
  • Publication number: 20130244147
    Abstract: The instant invention relates to liquid compositions comprising derivatives of diaminostilbene, binders and ink fixing agents such as divalent metal salts for the optical brightening of substrates suitable for high quality ink jet printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
    Inventors: Andrew Clive Jackson, Cedric Klein, David Puddiphatt, Benny J. Skaggs
  • Patent number: 8461555
    Abstract: Based on the pattern writing data input to an input unit 20, a control computer 19 divides a predetermined region on which writing is effected by an electron beam 54 into smaller regions each consisting of one or the same number of frames and determines the areal density of a pattern to be written on each smaller region. A drift compensation time interval determining unit 32 then determines the amount of change in pattern areal density between each two adjacent smaller regions, and groups the smaller regions in the predetermined region into region groups depending on whether or not the amount of change is greater than a predetermined value. A time profile for compensating for the drift of the electron beam 54 is then determined for each region group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: NuFlare Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Takeshi Kurohori
  • Patent number: 8441716
    Abstract: A process for producing a color electro-optic display uses an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising an electro-optic layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. This sub-assembly is laminated to a backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes with the electro-optic layer disposed between the backplane and the electrically-conductive layer. A flowable material is placed over the sub-assembly and a color filter array is placed over the electrically-conductive layer and aligned with the electrodes of the backplane to form the color electro-optic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Steven Joseph Battista, Jonathan D. Albert
  • Patent number: 8431911
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic storage media is provided. A structural substrate is coated with a magnetically active material, and a magnetic pattern is formed in the magnetically active material by treating portions of the material with energy from a laser, e-beam, or focused ion beam. The beam may be divided into a packet of beamlets by passing the beam through a divider, which may be a diffraction grating for laser energy, a thin film single crystal for electrons, or a perforated plate for ions, or the beam may be generated by an array of emitters. The beamlets are then focused to a desired dimension and distribution by optics or electric fields. The resulting beam packet may be shaped further by passing through an aperture of any desired shape. The resulting beam may be applied sequentially to exposure zones to treat an entire substrate or plurality of substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Majeed A. Foad, Stephen Moffatt
  • Patent number: 8363299
    Abstract: A first apparatus for displaying a color image comprises an electro-optic display (1002) having a plurality of pixels, each of which can be independently set to a light-transmissive optical state or a substantially opaque optical state, and lighting means (1006) arranged to flash separate pulses of light of at least two differing colors on to one surface of the electro-optic display (1002). A second apparatus for generating pulses of light of differing colors comprising a light source and a filter assembly comprising first (1100) and second (1106) electro-optic layers each having a light-transmissive state and a colored state, the two colored states being different, and electrodes to switch these layers between these states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Thomas H. Whitesides
  • Patent number: 8175736
    Abstract: A processing system and method for chemical oxide removal (COR) is presented, wherein the processing system comprises a first treatment chamber and a second treatment chamber, wherein the first and second treatment chambers are coupled to one another. The first treatment chamber comprises a chemical treatment chamber that provides a temperature controlled chamber, and an independently temperature controlled substrate holder for supporting a substrate for chemical treatment. The substrate is exposed to a gaseous chemistry, such as HF/NH3, under controlled conditions including surface temperature and gas pressure. The second treatment chamber comprises a heat treatment chamber that provides a temperature controlled chamber, thermally insulated from the chemical treatment chamber. The heat treatment chamber provides a substrate holder for controlling the temperature of the substrate to thermally process the chemically treated surfaces on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Masayuki Tomoyasu, Merritt Funk, Kevin A. Pinto, Masaya Odagiri, Lemuel Chen, Asao Yamashita, Akira Iwami, Hiroyuki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 8164818
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. An electrochromic device is fabricated to substantially cover a glass sheet, for example float glass, and a cutting pattern is defined based on one or more low-defectivity areas in the device from which one or more electrochromic panes are cut. Laser scribes and/or bus bars may be added prior to cutting the panes or after. Edge deletion can also be performed prior to or after cutting the electrochromic panes from the glass sheet. Insulated glass units (IGUs) are fabricated from the electrochromic panes and optionally one or more of the panes of the IGU are strengthened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Soladigm, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Collins, Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki, Dhairya Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 8111449
    Abstract: An electrophoretic displaying apparatus, comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate placed opposite with a predetermined interval; a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on the first substrate; signal lines arranged between the adjoining pixel electrodes; an opposed electrode provided on the second substrate; partition walls provided to stand toward the second substrate over the signal lines of the first substrate so as to enclose the plurality of pixel electrodes; and solvents severally containing a plurality of particles dispersed therein to be filled up in regions enclosed by the partition walls, wherein antireflective layer is formed on the first substrate correspondingly to the partition walls, and the signal lines is formed on a layer between the partition walls and the antireflective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Miyashita, Makoto Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8098418
    Abstract: A process for producing a color electro-optic display uses an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising an electro-optic layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. This sub-assembly is laminated to a backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes with the electro-optic layer disposed between the backplane and the electrically-conductive layer. A flowable material is placed over the sub-assembly and a color filter array is placed over the electrically-conductive layer and aligned with the electrodes of the backplane to form the color electro-optic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: E. Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Steven Joseph Battista, Jonathan D. Albert
  • Publication number: 20110311907
    Abstract: Reduced are interferential streaks in a halftone image, which are produced when using a cylindrical photoreceptor conductive substrate having been subjected to tool bit cutting processing, and provided are an electrophotographic photoreceptor capable of obtaining high image quality in response to a light printing field or the like and an image forming method employing the electrophotographic photoreceptor. Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a cylindrical substrate having been finished via cutting processing and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer, wherein among peaks other than at a lag of 0 in a correlogram of a substrate surface profile in a direction along a central axis of the substrate, a mean value from a maximum peak in height to a third peak in height is 0.3-0.8, each of the peaks in height corresponding to an autocorrelation coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoo SAKIMURA, Naoki NOZAKI, Shinichi HAMAGUCHI, Toshiko Nozaki, Hisashi NOZAKI, Mayuko MATSUSAKI
  • Patent number: 8068271
    Abstract: A transmissive electro-optic display includes a substantially transparent front plane and back plane element. The back plane element includes a plurality of electrodes distributed in two dimensions on the backplane, each allowing independent control of a discrete region of the display. The front plane element includes at least one electrode disposed opposite the back plane, and is spaced apart from the back plane element by an interior wall defining a plurality of cells therebetween. A plurality of partially conductive and optically anisotropic elements is rotatably disposed in the plurality of cells, together with a dielectric fluid. When an appropriate electric field and/or a magnetic field is applied to the cells, the corresponding anisotropic elements are caused rotate between a “transmissive” state and an “opaque” state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Cospheric LLC
    Inventors: Yelena Lipovetskaya, Brian Gobrogge
  • Patent number: 8049954
    Abstract: A rotating element display includes a matrix having discrete regions of cells of different sizes occupied by rotatably disposed optically and electrically anisotropic elements (e.g., electrically anisotropic bichromal spheres). The regions of larger cells are occupied by larger rotating elements having a first combination of optical properties while the regions of smaller cells are occupied by smaller elements having a second combination of optical properties. The rotating elements having different combinations of optical properties are separately addressable by electromagnetic signals that cause rotation of selected optically dissimilar elements and create a desired color image. In a different aspect, a rotating element display includes a plurality of optically anisotropic rotatable elements occupying cells of a transparent matrix, in a configuration where a background color is viewable through the matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Cospheric LLC
    Inventors: Yelena Lipovetskaya, Brian Gobrogge
  • Publication number: 20110217641
    Abstract: Reduced can be interferential streaks produced in a halftone image when using a photoreceptor support (also called a drawn tube) having been subjected to tool bit cutting processing, and provided can be an electrophotographic photoreceptor capable of obtaining high quality in response to the light printing field or the like and an image forming method employing the electrophotographic photoreceptor. Also disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor possessing a cylindrical support and provided thereon, a photosensitive layer, the cylindrical support possessing a processing profile regularly fanned along a central axis, provided on a circumferential surface of the cylindrical support, wherein the processing profile satisfies Formula 1: Formula 1 ?L?10 ?m, where ?L, represents a difference between a processing period width and another processing period width in a central axis direction of the cylindrical support in an image region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomoo SAKIMURA, Naoki NOZAKI, Hisashi NOZAKI, Toshiko NOZAKI, Teruo SASAKI, Mayuko USHIRO
  • Publication number: 20110207043
    Abstract: A gallium phthalocyanine compound represented by the following chemical structure I, where X represents a substituted or non-substituted alkyl group, a substituted or non-substituted alkenyl group, a substituted or non-substituted alkynyl group, a substituted or non-substituted aralkyl group, a substituted or non-substituted cycloalkyl group, a substituted or non-substituted aryl group, or a hydrogen atom, where substitution groups thereof are an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, nitro group, amino group, an aryl group, carboxylic group, and cyano group, R1 to R16 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an alkyl group, a halogen atom, nitro group, or aryl group, n represents an integer of from 1 to 3 but excluding a combination in which n is 1 and X is methyl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Yoshiki YANAGAWA, Masafumi Ohta
  • Patent number: 8004746
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophoretic display device and a method for manufacturing the same, which facilitate high reflectivity, high contrast ratio and easy removal of line-shaped spots occurring when a release film is removed from an electrophoretic film. The electrophoretic display device comprising a substrate; a gate line, a data line, a storage electrode and a switching element on the substrate; a first passivation film on the gate line, data line, storage electrode, switching element and substrate, the first passivation film including first and second regions, the first region corresponding to the gate line, data line and switching element, the second region being a region other than the first region; a plurality of first dielectric patterns on the second region, the plurality of first dielectric patterns being apart from one another; a pixel electrode on the plurality of first dielectric patterns; and an electrophoretic film on the pixel electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sung Jin Park
  • Patent number: 7982940
    Abstract: The present invention provides particles for display media constituting the display media used for an information display panel, in which the display media are sealed between two substrates, at least one of two substrates being transparent, and, in which the display media, to which an electrostatic field is applied, are made to move so as to display information, comprising: the particles having a substantially spherical shape, which are made by polymerizing raw materials including monomers, which include (acrylic or methacrylic) resin-hydrocarbon resin copolymer in the particles, in which a part of or all of the monomers are a multifunctional monomer having a plurality of polymerization reactive groups in one molecule, and which have minute irregularities on their surface evenly. By such a construction, the particles for display media can obtain irregularities firmly fixed on their surface. Poor display can be solved by using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuya Murata, Takao Ohuchi, Hajime Kitano
  • Patent number: 7943320
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel unsymmetrical cyanine dyes and to methods of performing nucleic acid analysis in the presence of such dyes. More specifically, the present invention relates to novel unsymmetrical cyanine dyes that have high affinity to double-stranded nucleic acids and that do not inhibit amplification reactions, particularly the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Canon U.S. Life Sciences, Inc.
    Inventor: Weidong Cao
  • Patent number: 7903319
    Abstract: An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid and a plurality of electrically charged particles disposed in the fluid and capable of moving therethrough on application of an electrical field to the medium. Each of the charged particles has a polymer coating comprising a first group. A polymer is dispersed in the fluid, this polymer having a plurality of second groups capable of attracting the first groups on the particles so that the polymer in the fluid forms a complex with the electrophoretic particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Howie Honeyman, Thomas H. Whitesides, Michael D. Walls
  • Patent number: 7898727
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device is disclosed. The electrophoretic display device includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines formed to cross each other on a substrate and define a plurality of pixel regions, a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the respective gate lines and the respective data line on the substrate, an electrophoretic film disposed on the substrate and configured to contain charged particles which are driven in an electrophoresis, color filter patterns disposed on the electrophoretic film and used to realize colors, a protective film adhered with the electrophoretic film by an adhesive material and configured to protect the electrophoretic film, and a sealant formed by dispensing and hardening in a fluid phase on edges of the substrate. The protective film is configured to include an outwardly exposed portion from edges of the electrophoretic film, and a step coverage formed on the exposed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Oh Nam Kwon
  • Patent number: 7869119
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to increase the resistance of electronic paper to external stress. The resistance to external stress is increased by providing an element formation layer, which includes an integrated circuit portion, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a charged particle-containing layer, between a first insulating film including a first structure body in which a first fibrous body is impregnated with a first organic resin, and a second insulating film including a second structure body in which a second fibrous body is impregnated with a second organic resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Semiconductor Energy laborator Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Oikawa, Shingo Eguchi, Mitsuo Mashiyama, Masatoshi Kataniwa, Hironobu Shoji, Masataka Nakada
  • Patent number: 7858279
    Abstract: Xerographic prints with a toner-based image and an overprint, said overprint based on radiation curable compositions containing a radiation curable oligomer/monomer, at least one photoinitiator and at least one surfactant, are disclosed. The overprints are particularly well-suited for wetting over substrates containing residual fuser oil and reducing or preventing document offset and for protecting xerographic images on substrates subjected to abrasives, heat, and/or sunlight since the compositions protect such images from cracking, fading, and smearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Kurt I. Halfyard, Gordon Sisler, T. Brian McAneney
  • Patent number: 7835028
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a toner image forming unit, a color forming information applying unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit and a color forming unit, the color forming information applying unit exposing a toner image formed on a surface of the image holding member from a back surface side of the image holding member, light transmitted through the image holding member applying color forming information to the toner image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Isao Ito
  • Patent number: 7808696
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device having improved frontal reflectance includes a first substrate including a first electrode of a transparent material having a first optical pattern, a second substrate opposing the first substrate and including a plurality of second electrodes, a spacer interposed between the first and second substrates to define a space between the first and second substrates, and a image display layer formed in the space formed by the first and second substrates and the spacer to display an image by an electric field generated between the first and second electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Woo Jae Lee, Seong Sik Shin, Nam Seok Roh, Keun Kyu Song
  • Patent number: 7715089
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display panel with a fast response speed and its fabrication method are disclosed. The electrophoretic display panel includes a first array substrate including a gate line and a data line extending perpendicularly to each other, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line, and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the thin film transistor. The electrophoretic display panel also includes a second array substrate coupled the first array substrate and including a common electrode capable of forming an electric field with the pixel electrode, a spacer formed on at least one of the first array substrate or the second array substrate to define a charging region in the pixel region; and an electrophoretic medium in the charging region between the first and second array substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Keun Kyu Song
  • Patent number: 7674564
    Abstract: One embodiment of a color filter includes a substrate and a color filter pattern formed on the substrate, the color filter pattern including at least two, substantially identical patterned layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Bruce J. Jackson, Rodolfo Jodra-Barron, Philip S. Burkum
  • Publication number: 20100021833
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of compounds of formulae (I) and/or (II) as colorless IR absorbers wherein M is Ni, Pd, Pt, Au, Ir, Fe, Zn, W, Cu, Mo, In, Mn, Co, Mg, V, Cr or Ti, X1, X2 and X3 are each independently of the others sulfur or oxygen, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each independently of the others hydrogen, NR7R8, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkyl, C1-C18 alkyl wherein the alkylene chain is interrupted with oxygen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkenyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, unsubstituted or substituted arylalkyl or unsubstituted or substituted heteroarylalkyl, R7 and R8, each independently of the other, being unsubstituted or substituted C1-C18alkyl, unsubstituted or substituted aryl, unsubstituted or substituted arylalkyl or unsubstituted or substituted heteroarylalkyl, a further IR absorber optionally being added to the compounds of formulae (I) and (II).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Urs Lehmann, Daniel Heizler
  • Patent number: 7576904
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electro-magnetophoresis display having either the traditional up/down or dual switching mode. The display cells are filled with an electro-magnetophoretic dispersion comprising particles suspended in a solvent and the particles are both charged and magnetized. The display of the invention prevents undesired movement of the particles in the cells. The magnetic force generated by the magnetic layer(s) eliminates the need to provide cells with a threshold voltage high enough to avoid the cross talk and/or cross bias effects. In addition, the dual switching mode allows the particles to move in the up/down direction as well as the planar direction, thus providing a multicolor display of high color quality at very low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Sipix Imaging, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Chung, Rong-Chang Liang
  • Patent number: 7557984
    Abstract: An electrophoretic display device, includes: an electrophoretic capacitor provided with an electrophoretic layer containing at least one kind of electrophoretic particle; and a ferroelectric capacitor provided with a ferroelectric layer containing a ferroelectric material. In the electrophoretic display device, the electrophoretic particle is allowed to move to conduct a display and thus a polarity of the ferroelectric layer is inverted by a current supply to the electrophoretic capacitor and the ferroelectric capacitor that are electrically connected with each other, and the display can be retained due to a remanent polarization of the ferroelectric layer even after the current supply is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Karasawa, Masayoshi Todorokihara
  • Publication number: 20090148784
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising on or over an electrically conductive support a photosensitive layer containing a pyranthrone compound represented by the following formula and the pyranthrone compound has a crystal structure exhibiting a CuK? X-ray diffraction spectrum having peaks at angles (2?±0.2°) of 16.9°, 18.7° and 20.6°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.,
    Inventors: Tomoko SAKIMURA, Toyoko SHIBATA, Shinichi HAMAGUCHI, Masanori YUMITA
  • Patent number: 7535624
    Abstract: An electro-optic display comprises a layer (130) of a solid electro-optic material, at least one electrode disposed adjacent the layer (130) of electro-optic material, and a layer (180) of a lamination adhesive interposed between the layer (130) of electro-optic material and the electrode, the lamination adhesive (180) having a higher electrical conductivity in a direction perpendicular to the layer of lamination adhesive than in the plane of the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Karl R. Amundson, Robert W. Zehner, Richard M. Webber, Katherine Geramita, Libing Zhang, Andrew L. Loxley, Gregg M. Duthaler, John E. Ritter, Michael L. Steiner, Mavyn M. Holman, Justin J. Abramson, Glen Crossley
  • Publication number: 20090123856
    Abstract: Provided is a developer for replenishment capable of forming a high-quality image even upon duration. The developer for replenishment includes at least a toner and a magnetic carrier, and in the developer for replenishment, 1 part by mass of the magnetic carrier is blended with 2 to 50 parts by mass of the toner, and the magnetic carrier contains a ferrite core and a resin component, has a true specific gravity of 2.5 to 4.2 g/cm3, has a 50% particle diameter on a volume basis (D50) of 15 to 70 ?m, and has an average circularity of 0.850 to 0.950, the average circularity having a coefficient of variation of 1.0 to 10.0%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yojiro Hotta, Kazuo Terauchi, Kunihiko Nakamura, Hiroyuki Fujikawa, Yoshinobu Baba, Takayuki Itakura, Hirohide Tanikawa